Re: [Swig-user] Swig helps? C++ compiling => Converting .a into .lib?

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

SWIG is no good for that. It could be though if someone wrote a new
'language' module to wrap C++ code with C++ via a flattened C interface.
It has been talked about before. Then you'd compile the C code with
cygwin's gcc to access the C++ .a file and you'd compile the C++ wrapper
with VC++. This will work as the C interface exported by a dll is
portable, ie not compiler specific. There are limitations to the
approach, eg public member variables cannot be accessed as variables,
instead go via public getters/setters.

William

Serethos wrote:
>  > I still don't know what this has to do with SWIG though.
> 
> This is what I want to find out. While reading I guess SWIG is for all 
> some problems related to
> using different languages with each other (talking in a simple way ..). 
> A solution for my problem
> could be to make the .a library (which has been compiled with a 
> non-VC-compatible compiler)
> compatible to VC.
> So the question is, can I realize that with SWIG.
> 
> 
> 
> Sohail Somani wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: swi...@li... 
>>> [mailto:swi...@li...] On Behalf Of Serethos
>>>     
>>   
>>> I would prefer to disclaim the bypass of using cygwin and a cross 
>>> compiler at all. A guy of the cygwin mailing
>>> list indicated that the SWIG-Project could help me out of 
>>> this. It would 
>>> be a great help if somone could give
>>> me a hint if this is possible.
>>>     
>> Do you have access to the source of said simulator? If so, you could
>> rebuild it using Visual C++...
>>
>> You might also want to put a DLL in between your library and the static
>> library of the simulator.
>>
>> I still don't know what this has to do with SWIG though.
>>
>>   
> 
> 
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