MLOpenString()

#include "mathlink.h"

int main()
{
    MLENV env;
    MLINK link;
    int error;

    env = MLInitialize((char *)0);
    if(env  (MLENV)0)
        { /* unable to initialize MathLink environment */ }

    link = MLOpenString(env, "/usr/local/bin/math -mathlink", &error);
    if(link  (MLINK)0 || error  MLEOK)
        { /* unable to create link to the Kernel */ }

    /* ... */

    MLClose(link);
    MLDeinitialize(env);

    return 0;
}