Calling C and C++ from IDL:Making Sense of the Sometimes Confusing World of C and IDL
Calling C and C++ from IDL«Making Sense of the Sometimes Confusing World of C and IDL»
By: Ronn Kling | ElsevKling Research and Software | ISBN: 0967127017 | 2001-01 | PDF | 125 pages | 11,4 Mb
This 125 page book is written for anyone that wants to be able to call C or C++ programs from IDL. Using very simple examples written in C and C++ the reader will be able to create and pass scalars, arrays, strings and structures back and forth from IDL to C. In addition a new chapter covers writing IDL object methods in C or C++. Chapters also cover the new keyword API available in IDL 5.6 and later, creating a dll project in Visual C++ 6, Visual Studio 2005 and debugging a DLM using Visual C++ or Emacs and gdb on Unix. Over 1000 lines of source code are provided on the accompanying disk with a makefile for all UNIX platforms, com file for VMS, Visual C++ 6.0 project for windows, Visual Studio 2005, and a Code Warrior 5 project for the Macintosh.