Re: Wrap 3rd Party Static lib in namespace
Igor Tandetnik wrote:
"CuriousGeorge" <brettrobichaud@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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I'm using a 3rd party static library that has polluted the global
namespace with very overused names. Is there any way I can wrap
their whole static library (all functions and structures) into a
namespace without having the source code (I have just headers and
libs)? Their lib is exporting just c style functions.
Probably not. Namespace name becomes part of the function's mangled
name, and then the linker won't find them. I'm afraid you are sadly
out of luck.
....unless you wrap the whole static library into a DLL that exposes only the
new names, and publish a new header file for it. Assuming the 3rd party
library uses the CRT, that would pretty much force you to use the DLL CRT
unless that 3rd party library was very carefully constructed (basically, was
designed to be exposed as a CRT-agnostic DLL).
Depending on the size of the library, that could be a lot of work!
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