cross-platform c++ classes?

[Lucas Vogel]

Let me re-ask this question....

There exists a somewhat obscure library called the GSD library. It contains
hundreds of obscure API calls and is very difficult to understand. What I
want to do is create a library of classes that will make the use and abuse
of the GSD library much easier to understand and to use. 

Because the GSD library is multiplatform, I want to create a set of "core
classes" that are platform-neutral that will compile on the three supported
platforms - Linux, Windows and SGI. This set of classes would handle the
interfacing to the GSD library and do assorted things. From there I am also
going to build a platform-specific subset of objects from those original
classes - that way I still have a platform-neutral codebase that anyone
could use in general, with a specific implementation that I need for what
I'm doing-which, in this case, would be a windows/COM implementation of the
core. 

Sorry for the confusion, thanks for the help! :)

Lucas



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Parrish [mailto:cparrish@home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:41 PM
> To: plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: cross-platform c++ classes?
> 
> 
> Okay maybe I'm not understanding. If you need a cross 
> platform  COM like 
> API,  The one I know of is XPCOM. If you need the API to be closed 
> source then of course this wouldn't work for you. If you're 
> looking for  
> cross platform front end tools. XPFE was made just for that (another 
> mozilla tech <g>). Although I do get excited about mozilla I 
> do relize 
> that its still concidered new to a lot of ppl (I've been 
> working with it 
> for about a year now so it doesn't feel that way to me). I 
> would be very 
> happy to find out if QT could work with XPCOM however. I'll 
> try to look 
> up GSD.
> 
> Carl Parrish
>