Re: Is it possible/acceptable to create a component in Gambas that depends on a shared library?

[Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 10/02/26 21:06, gbWilly ha scritto:
> A lot of the questions you pose here Claus have my attention as well. I'm very curious to read answers to these questions as I do want to experiment with interfacing with some C libraries myself.
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> Great stuff, this VLC API Vuott wrote. I'll be studying it for sure and see if I can play a bit with the concept.
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> I somehow wish there would be some really simple C library that does really simple to understand stuff any noob can read and understand, and an gambas example application that interfaces with this really simple noob friendly C library. This would be for learning purpose only, doesn't have to have a real function, just do something, like print "Hello from the library" for example or do a calculation etc.
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> Up to now I mostly used command line applications to interface the environment. Some of these command line applications use an underlying library where the real magic happens and I would rather interface with these directly, for the simple reason to know how to do it, how to maintain it and to help others achieve the same.
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> If I get a grasp on it myself, I will write a Gambas Learning Guide on interfacing with C libraries, at least that is my goal.
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> gbWilly

Hi gbWilly,

As the wiki states:

There is a TEMPLATE directory in the sources that includes a script 
named make-component that can create a component skeleton directory from 
a configuration file.

The configuration file must be located in the TEMPLATE/conf sub-directory.

See the TEMPLATE/README file for more details (Written directly by Benoit).

Regards
Gianluigi

P.S. I don't know C/C++, so I can't help.