Calling External Programs
The Wolfram Language immediately allows you to call both standalone programs and individual functions or methods within running programs. The Wolfram Language's architecture allows external functionality to be represented in a symbolic form that can immediately be manipulated within the Wolfram Language—and that often makes access to external functionality from within the Wolfram Language more convenient even than from its own native environment.
Basic External Program Operations
Run — run an external command-line program (!prog to run as a shell escape)
RunThrough — feed standard input to an external program and capture output
Compile — automatically generate C code and link back to the Wolfram Language
Import ▪ Export ▪ CForm ▪ FortranForm
SystemOpen — open a file, URL, or other target on your computer system
Direct Control of External Processes »
RunProcess — run an external process within the operating system
StartProcess ▪ ProcessConnection ▪ KillProcess ▪ ...
External Services
ServiceExecute — execute a command on an external service
ServiceConnect ▪ ServiceObject
Calling Interpreted Languages »
ExternalEvaluate — run a command in an external language, and return the result
StartExternalSession — start a persistent external language session
RegisterExternalEvaluator ▪ ...
WSTP »
Install — install a WSTP-installable external program
LinkPatterns — find functions available in a running WSTP program
mprep — externally prepare a WSTP‐installable C or C++ program
LinkRead ▪ LinkWrite ▪ LinkLaunch ▪ ...
Wolfram LibraryLink »
LibraryFunctionLoad — load a function from a dynamic library into the Wolfram Language
LibraryFunction — a function that calls into a dynamic library
LibraryFunctionInformation ▪ LibraryFunctionUnload ▪ LibraryLoad ▪ LibraryUnload ▪ FindLibrary ▪ $LibraryPath ▪ ...
J/Link »
JavaNew — create a new Java object in any specified class
LoadJavaClass ▪ MakeJavaObject ▪ JavaBlock ▪ JavaShow ▪ ...
.NET/Link »
NETNew — create a new .NET object of any specified type
LoadNETType ▪ NETTypeInfo ▪ MakeNETObject ▪ NETBlock ▪ ...
WSDL Web Services »
InstallService — install web services from a WSDL description
GPU Computing »
CUDAFunctionLoad ▪ OpenCLFunctionLoad ▪ ...