OpenEuphoria

Re: Qt4, Windows, and Euphoria

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Jul 05, 2005
• 558 views

Travis Beaty wrote:
> 
> 
> Vincent wrote:
> 
> >How does one go about wrapping Object Oriented C++ libraries with Euphoria?
> >It can be done, Matt
> has demonstrated that with wxEuphoria. But I just dont understand how. Is
> there some interfacing library?</font></i>
> >
> >If there is a C++ interfacing Euphoria library. I would like to have it in my
> >library 
> >
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am unsure at what specific libraries are available in Euphoria for 
> this task.
> 
> The key problem to interfacing with C++ code is "name mangling."  This 
> mangling is done by C++ compilers in order to enable overloaded 
> functions, functions which have the same name but are differentiated 
> only by their footprint, or the types of parameters they take.  Because 
> of name mangling, a C++ method, say Foo(), could end up being seen by 
> Euphoria as Z9943_object_Foo6.  The process of name mangling is not 
> random, but it is complicated.
> 
> This can be defeated by externing functions.  An example:

The way I dealt with it was to output the list of exports mangled and 
demangled.  On Windows I used Dependency Walker, and on Linux I used nm.
Then I could translate between mangled and demangled easily.

How does using extern handle overloaded methods?

Matt Lewis