On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 19:49:37 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist
wrote:
On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 07:26:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2015-02-26 20:53, Taylor Hillegeist wrote:
So, In languages like .net they have dll's that contain not
only
bytecode but also the necessary headers to make them usable
in any .net
language. I was curious if this kind of thing has ever been
attempted
for static libraries?
basically some type of universal header + static library =
Everything
Needed to use in project file.
of course they would be targeted for a certain platform but
would be
really easy to grab/use.
And if the header could be agreed upon any compiled language
could use
the library which would be a huge benefit.
Perhaps i'm incorrect in my assumptions. Let me know what you
think
about the idea?
I think it's better to use a package manager to handle this.
It will also automatically download the necessary files. Also
it will help (hopefully) you to find the libraries you need.
I just think its a shame that all over the place people are
compiling code in different programming languages, and although
all the .o files are compatible with each other there isn't a
standard cross language way of defining a binding. But that
would be making people agree on things...
On Windows that standard it is called COM for OO languages,
stdcall/pascal for procedural ones and BCL for those targeting
.NET.
--
Paulo
