# How to define a Julia function from C?

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**Created:** [March 9, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-define-a-julia-function-from-c/2566 "2017-03-09T16:14:36Z")\
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yuyichao and ihnorton got it exactly – maybe it’s because I’m used to Python but, yeah, I was looking for the equivalent of PyMethodDef. interpreter.c is a good place to look, thanks for that – but I’ll see if I can do something with ccall.

Thanks!

Irwin

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