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mlx-c

brew install mlx-c v0.6.0_2 MIT

C language bindings and API for MLX, Apple's array computing framework.

Why you might care

Use this to call MLX operations from C code, enabling integration with C/C++ projects that need GPU-accelerated array computation on Apple Silicon. It's a build/runtime dependency for C applications targeting MLX; the alternative is binding MLX from Python or Rust.

Categories

binding library

Alternatives

mlx numpy-c-api onnxruntime
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Runtime dependencies

mlx

Build dependencies

cmake

Links

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