Re: MathLink: letting Mathematica do the hard work
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg77812] Re: MathLink: letting Mathematica do the hard work
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:08:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <f50553$qm7$1@smc.vnet.net>
alexxx.magni at gmail.com wrote: > Hi everybody, > > In a C program I'm writing, I need to perform a traveling-salesman- > type calculation. > Knowing that Mathematica surely optimized it better than I could be > able to, I wanted to see if it exists a way to call the kernel from my > C program, pass to it my list of vertices, and get the result. > >>From what I found until now it seems to me that MathLink is mostly > used in the opposite direction: to call external programs from > Mathematica. > Do you know if the opposite is possible? > > Thanks! > > Alessandro Magni A good place to start are the following sections from the Mathematica Book 5th Edition: "2.13.9 Two-Way Communication with External Programs" http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-2.13.9 "2.13.12 Manipulating Expressions in External Programs" ttp://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-2.13.12 "2.13.14 Running Mathematica from Within an External Program" http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-2.13.14 Regards, Jean-Marc