How to embed IronPython in a non-.NET application?

Is it possible to call IronPython functions (and get access to their return values), from C/C++ code, without .NET? And if yes, how?

Is an embedding approach as in the python-c-api possible (i.e. as described here: http://docs.python.org/2/extending/embedding.html)?.

In our project, we cannot depend on .NET. However, we'd like to interact with other software, which exposes its interface through IronPython.

Solution

The only way to do it would be to host the .NET runtime or embed Mono in your C++ application, and then run IronPython inside of the embedded CLR. IronPython requires a CLR implementation; there's simply no way around that.

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