Best approach on using C library in Julia

[Rivo Sarmento]

Greetings,

I need to use a C library, an implementation of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm[1], in Julia. I don't think that rewritting the whole code is a efficient effort, so I'm going to use their code.

My question is: is it better to use the executables (available after compiling their code), or is it better to create a C file that links the headers (and use their functions directly).

Reference:

[1] http://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2014/82/

[Stefan Karpinski]

Please ask such questions on julia-users rather than julia-dev. See

http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/