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

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/10/26 5:20 PM, Gianluigi wrote:
> 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

I never new that Tobi wrote a "how to". I have just read that PDF. And, I'll probably have to read it again several times!

Good stuff, Gianluigi. Thank you.


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Lee

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