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

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Subject: Re: Incorporating existing C/C++ libraries into an RB Project. . .?
From: Michael Williams <lists at mgreg dot com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:45:03 -0400
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>
> If what you have is a shared library (dylib, DLL, ...) with a C  
> interface
> then you can call it today with declares and you don't need a plug- 
> in at
> all. If you don't know much about declares I recommend Charles  
> Yeoman's book
> iDeclare at http://www.declaresub.com/. You need to use a plug-in when
> either the interfacing becomes complicated or all you have is  
> source code to
> the library.
>
> Chris


Well, that's just it;  I'll need it for different platforms so I'll  
either 1) need to create a plugin to do what I want or 2) have to  
distribute the shared library with every copy of the program which is  
very prohibitive.  As I stated earlier, I'm working with the FITS  
file format and my plan was to make use of the following library:   
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html

If you all could, take a look and let me know what you think.   
Perhaps this is the wrong approach.  Perhaps I'm missing something.   
Otherwise, thanks for the great suggestions.

Michael

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