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Re: IDL Virtual Machine [message #41412 is a reply to message #40967]

Mon, 25 October 2004 03:08

sdj
Messages: 20
Registered: November 2003

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Dear All,

Thanks to everybody, your help has been greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Pepe

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Pepe S. D. Juevara

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> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:21:44 -0700, Rick Towler wrote:
>
>> Pepe wrote:
>>
>>> I have a client server application which I am developing using IDL and
>>> C/C++. This application needs to be available to various end users
>>> which run on different systems (Linux, Windows, Unix, Mac).
>>> The question is: can the IDL Virtual Machine handle this for me or do
>>> I need to create a sav file for every different operating system ?
>>
>> You do need to create one .sav file and many .dlms (well one .dlm and
>> then .so and .dll and...). The libraries that your build when creating
>> .dlms (or libs for CALL_EXTERNAL) are platform specific so those need to
>> be built for every OS you'll be supporting.
>>
>>> If I make calls to C/C++ code via IDL, does the end user need to have
>>> a C/C++ compiler to handle the calls ?
>>
>> Not if you provide a pre-compiled library for their platform.
>
> If it's a simple C file or two to be linked to (or called externally), I
> have had success distributing the C file and using MAKE_DLL to compile it
> automatically (which of course only works if the target user actually has
> a compiler). If these conditions are met, it actually works fairly well.
> I've posted about it several times before; search for MAKE_DLL.
>
> JD

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		Re: IDL Virtual Machine By: sdj on Mon, 25 October 2004 03:08
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine By: JD Smith on Fri, 22 October 2004 14:04
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine By: Rick Towler on Fri, 22 October 2004 09:21
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine By: btt on Fri, 22 October 2004 08:59
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