D programs linked with C/MPI based libraries
Jesse Phillips
jessekphillips+D at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 12:58:30 PDT 2011
Dominic Jones Wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to call within a D driver program library functions which are
> programmed in C/C++ with the message passing interface (MPI)? I want to write
> a program which makes use of the ParMetis library
> (http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview).
>
> Supposing it is possible, to compile and run C/MPI programs, wrapper commands
> are used, such as mpicc and mpirun. What would be done in D?
>
> Thank you,
> Dominic Jones
It is possible and I suppose everything not passing and retrieving messages would be done in D. There is probably a bunch of work involved in converting the headers, but there isn't any reason D can't call into MPI.
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