Re: Function pointers for DLL functions?


"David Ching" <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not encountering a problem, I am examining the feasibility of making an
extensible interpreted scripting language. I want to provide the capability
of extending the language by adding functions written in C++. Although the
functions would be written in C++ they would be callable from the interpreted
language.


Why don't you embed a Python or Lua interpreter into your C++ app? These
script languages are made to be embedded into your app and you can easily
expose C functions callable by the script. I highly recommend this over
ActiveX because you control the whole thing.

-- David



Your idea lead me to another idea that I will probably adopt. Although the
syntax of the languages that you suggested would require too much learning curve
for my users, an embedded C/C++ interpreter would not. The end result of these
combined ideas drastically reduces my development time, and development costs.
At least one of the two C/C++ interpreters below is offered as complete
freeware.

http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html
http://www.softintegration.com/


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