Re: Share .cpp and .h along projects
"Ulrich Eckhardt" <eckhardt@satorlaser.com> wrote in message
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Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] wrote:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Only __declspec(dllexport|dllimport) allows you to (mostly) use the
classes as you would write them in normal C++. [...]
You can use COM-compatible v-table interfaces perfectly naturally... you
need a factory function and free function or reference counting instead
of
new/delete, but that's all you lose. Add a smart pointer and you're
about
as "normal C++" as you can get.
Hmm, imagine that MFC's CPoint was exported via COM. The overhead would be
insane, every member access going through a function call, every
instantiation requiring a heap allocation.
There's no code there worth sharing in a DLL. Share as source, derive
publicly from POINT and provide an implicit converting constructor, and let
all your APIs use POINT. Compiler independence achieved.
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