morpho-extensiondemo

This repository contains a minimal morpho extension for demonstration purposes, illustrating how to create and package a C-based extension. The repository contains C source code for the extension, CMake files to enable convenient building and an example of a help file.

Installation

Clone this repository onto your computer in any convenient place:

git clone https://github.com/morpho-lang/morpho-extensiondemo.git

then add the location of this repository to your .morphopackages file.

echo PACKAGEPATH >> ~/.morphopackages 
where PACKAGEPATH is the location of the git repository.

You need to compile the extension, which you can do by cd'ing to the repository's base folder and typing

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. 
make install

The package can then be loaded into morpho using the import keyword.

import extensiondemo

Use

The extensiondemo package includes a toy function foo() and a toy class Foo that inherits from Object and implements a single additional method wibble.

Examine the help using morpho in interactive mode by typing

? extensiondemo