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Engine structure</A>
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When all required databases are loaded you should prepare the detection
engine by calling <code>cl_engine_compile()</code>. In case of failure you
should still free the memory allocated to the engine with
<code>cl_engine_free()</code>:
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int cl_engine_compile(struct cl_engine *engine);
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In our example:
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if((ret = cl_engine_compile(engine)) != CL_SUCCESS) {
printf("cl_engine_compile() error: %s\n", cl_strerror(ret));
cl_engine_free(engine);
return 1;
}
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