How to compile the julia code into c language?

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I have my code in julia language, can I generated a C code for it?

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no, but keep an eye on:
https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl

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No basically. There was at one point Intel’s Julia2C, but it’s outdated. You can however call Julia code from C.

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no, checkout:

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don’t use Modelica or don’t use Julia

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does you Julia code use Julia packages? you need to manually translate most likely

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Yes, I am using several Julia packages (plus user-defined ones) like SparseArrays, LinearAlgebra, StaticArrays, PlotlyJS, PyPlot, BenchmarkTools, NativeFileDialog, JLD2, CSV, DataFrames, Gtk translating them can be done by this https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl?

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no, that compiles to executable.

there’s no way to translate, not at this scale (i.e. so many julia packages involved)

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Aha, how can I translate my embedded julia packages manually?

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Re-implement the functions you used in whatever language supported by the other tool you needed?

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I think it will be a pain.

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You could write a thin wrapper in C that links libjulia and calls your Julia code.

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Can you give me an example or link for doing this?

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A quick search led me to this: Calling local Julia package from C - Stack Overflow

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I think it’s easier to compile a C-callable interface on the Julia side than to mess around with lots of jl_* functions, for example: I am searching for a C++ code implementing the complex polygamma function - Computational Science Stack Exchange

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You said they support Fortran or C, do they mean they support shared library? Or they take Fortran or C code and compile together into their stuff

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One doesn’t simply “call a c function”, if by calling you mean like ccall() in Julia, then it’s Fortran or C compiled to a .so shared library, which means you can do the same for Julia, by writing a wrapper as suggested above

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I have worked in this today, I found that modelica includes the C function directly into its model, in which the C function is compiled by gcc (embedded in modelica). I am not sure if I can do this for julia also as I could not find that gcc support julia.

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Seems pretty limiting if it doesn’t let you link to libraries. That would only let you use C code that is completely self contained, which is not true of most interesting code these days.

Are you sure they don’t allow you to compile things yourself and just provide a shared library to load?

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They provide to include a shared library as well. So, I am wondering if I can compile a Julia code to a shared library, so I can include this gendered library such as dll but I am not sure if it will be compatible or not.