Julia does not compile the C code; it links against shared libraries. It helps that Julia types can model C structs easily. Manual entry on calling C: http://d

Julia does not compile the C code; it links against shared libraries. It helps that Julia types can model C structs easily. Manual entry on calling C: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/ http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/calling-c-and-for... Blog post on passing Juila callback functions to C code: http://julialang.org/blog/2013/05/callback/ http://julialang.org/blog/2013/05/callback/