Re: How to seperate the C++ template implementation and definition in different files?
Hendrik Schober wrote:
Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] wrote:
Triple-DES wrote:
On 14 Nov, 09:47, Hendrik Schober <Spamt...@gmx.de> wrote:
[...]
(BTW, AFAIK, Dinkumware manages to enable 'export' in their
library for compilers that have it, and disable it for the
others. So the "exclusively" isn't necessary.)
Yes, I considered that possibility, but I felt that the introduction
of additional #define's for cross-compilation would make it less
straightforward than the header approach. It's a matter of opinion.
Of course, in a perfect world where every implementation was fully
conforming, header-only libraries would be less common.
???
header-only distribution of templates is the only way to be
compatible with multiple compilers
export is not binary-compatible across compilers, you'd need a
binary for each and every version of each and every toolchain you
wanted to support
I suppose you mean this in a very general way (and not
specific to templates) as I fail to see the differences
to non-template code, where object code isn't compatible
either.
Non-template code in a DLL + import library set is most definitely usable by
multiple compilers. And a DLL + LoadLibrary + GetProcAddress almost
universally so. At least in the Windows world, *nux has "shared object"
instead of DLL but pretty much the same rules apply -- if it's ELF format
and it's the right architecture, you can link to it from any compiler.
Schobi
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