There are a number of options available to you, of varying levels of quality, efficiency, and ease of use.
The pipe/fifo option is not really GAP-specific, you can make a named FIFO and then read and write it from most programs, including GAP. Go and read a general guide on named pipes. You could use this option with the the json package ( https://github.com/gap-system/json ), to give you a well-formed data structure to send / receive. Another alternative is SCSCP, which sends XML over network sockets. I have used this, it does require using an XML parser, which is fairly heavy duty, and is a little slow (this would only matter if you are sending many very small requests, it is only the communication itself which is slow). I have an example library for using SCSCP from C++ here: https://bitbucket.org/ChrisJefferson/miniscscp This library is very minimal, but will hopefully give you guidance on how to make SCSCP work. The final option, which is by far the hardest (but I mention it as an option) is to integrate your C++ code as a GAP kernel extension. If you want more details about how to do this I'm happy to provide them, but I warn you it is much harder than the other options! Chris On 19/04/2015 17:25, "Jonathan Gryak" <gry...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, >According to the FAQ: > >> What you can do is to run GAP in a child process and communicate with it >> using pipes, pseudo-ttys, UNIX FIFOs or some similar device. We have >>done >> this successfully in a number of projects, and you can contact the >>support >> list for more detailed advice if you want to go down this route. > > >Unfortunately I can't seem to find any documentation or post in the Forum >or elsewhere which shows this process. Any suggestions? > >Thanks in advance. >Jonathan >_______________________________________________ >Forum mailing list >Forum@mail.gap-system.org >http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
