Re: Incorporating existing C/C++ libraries into an RB Project. . .?

[Chris Little <cslittle at mac dot com>]

I would start from Dave Addey's excellent Xcode template instead of Thomas
Tempelman's since the latter is quite out of date. On Windows I would use
Visual Studio if you have access to it. The plug-in SDK has example projects
you can work from.

As for integrating a C/C++ library into a plug-in take a look at the
PNGUtilities example in plug-in SDK. This a Mac plug-in that wraps libpng
and it sounds similar to what you want to do.

Chris

on 7/27/07 3:08 PM, Didier CUGY at didier dot cugy at neuf dot fr wrote:

> there is no problem to include a library in a plugin.
> 
> the thomas tempelman example allow to understand how to write plugin.
> 
> this is more difficult with Mach-O plugins but the SDK example work.
> 
> the best way is to use XCODE for mach-o plugin (macintel and PPC)
> 
> and code warrior for classic and windows. i prefer the 8.3 version.
> 
> best regards
> 
> 
> 
> Le 27 juil. 07 à 20:48, Michael Williams a écrit :
> 
>> Note:  This is a repost per Joe Strout's suggestion to post to the
>> "plugins" list.  Joe has replied, but I'd also like to get the list's
>> thoughts.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm currently developing a program that requires the use of a few odd
>> file formats (e.g. FITS, etc.). Obviously RB doesn't support opening
>> or manipulating this file format (does it?). Therefore I need to
>> incorporate the functionality of an existing C/C++ library (as a
>> plugin or otherwise) into my RB project.
>> 
>> I need this to be cross-platform. Will I need to create separate
>> plugins for each? I'd prefer the MBS approach in having only one
>> plugin that is cross-platform. How, exactly, is this achieved? Will I
>> need to map each and every function manually or is the plugin system
>> intuitive enough to expose functionality?
>> 
>> I've been looking through the SDK documentation but it doesn't seem
>> very well organized or up to date.
>> 
>> If possible, I'd appreciate a tutorial or some information that
>> provides direction from beginning to end in a *clear*, *concise*
>> manner on how to include an entire existing C/C++ library into an RB
>> project.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Michael
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