Stephen Taylor schrieb:
Hi All,
I have a couple of questions regarding developing with the VirtualBox API:
Right now we are compiling against virtualbox by including the headers
from the open source edition for the COM glue code (like ComPtr, and
COMGETTER), and then linking against the SDK for the VirtualBox_i.c file
that contains the interface GUIDs. Other glue classes like Bstr throw
compiler errors when we try to use them (can't find it).
Ideally we'd want to just compile against the SDK, but it seems that it
contains no glue code, such as support for ComPtr. Looking at the
sample in the SDK contains this blurb:
"Currently, there is no separate sample program that uses the VirtualBox
MS COM XPCOM Glue library. Please refer to the sources of stock
VirtualBox applications such as the VirtualBox GUI frontend or the
VBoxManage command line frontend."
Is the glue code included in the sdk, or will I have to continue to
compile against the OSE?
No, the glue headers are not part of OSE right now. Will see if we can
simplify this in the future.
I've also noticed that using Visual Studio 2008 to compile against the
OSE give errors in the VirtualBox code. An example of this is in line
188 of \com\string.h, where it can't convert the parameter types
implicitly. I have to fix by explicitly casting types to what the
compiler is expecting (other similar errors are in \com\guid.h). Am I
missing something, or is there something I can do where I won't need to
fix these errors each time a new version of VBox comes out?
Not sure why we don't get those errors...
Klaus
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