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

On 2/10/26 12:06, gbWilly wrote:

On Saturday, February 7th, 2026 at 06:10, Claus Dietrich <claus.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Am 07.02.26 um 00:10 schrieb Benoît Minisini:

I suggest you try to do what you want, and that you show me the result
if you want my opinion.

I didn't raise this subject but like to offer the attached project for
the discussion. It is simple and represents a media player based on the
VLC library. Its functions are wrapped into a "VLCPlayer" - class and it
can to things which I wasn't able to achieve with gb.media (i.e.
watching IP-TV).

While working on it (with the great support of Vuott for the C API
stuff) I started wondering, why we don't have a gb.vlc component and
whether it would be feasible to make a Gambas component out of this
project. Are Gambas means sufficient or does it need more than that? How
to deal with changing versions of libraries? Can the component specify
the VLC library as a dependency and would the VLC library be installed
with the installation of a gb.vlc?


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





The readline library from the farm uses a very simple c interface

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