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

[Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 10/02/26 22:49, Gianluigi ha scritto:
> Il 10/02/26 22:40, Gianluigi ha scritto:
> > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> Found it!
> https://web.archive.org/web/20201026120522/https://www-e.ovgu.de/tboege/ 
> gambas/native_comp.pdf
>
> Gianluigi
This (again by Prof. Tobias Boege) is also interesting:

https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2014-September/049856.html

Gianluigi