Re: LYNX-DEV C++/C mix

[Wayne Buttles]

Before, I wrote:
> > I need a crash course on mixing C++ and C if anyone can oblige.  I have a
> > C++ library that [supposedly] allows djgpp programs to use winsock.  This
> > could mean a lynx for Win3.x, but only if I can find a way to mix them.
> > 
> > The winsock.h that comes with it is itself written in c++.  It contains
> > classes and substituting that for the normal tcp libraries results in a
> > lot of:

On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> I don't think there's a reliable way to call C++ from C, except (possibly)
> by adding a layer in C++ that is defined w/o classes in its interface
> (otherwise, the name-mangling produces this sort of problem).

Ahhhh, it is all coming back to me now.  I have to write a set of
interface functions to access their interface library.  Thanks for the
clue.

Is there anyone out there that has ever played with writing a packet
driver?  If so, is there a chance that this is the other piece of making a
winsock->pktdrvr shim?  http://www.rangenet.com/markiv/wsock.html

[ Back on my head... ]
Wayne


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