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Header-only class libraries

Started by antareus Jul 14, 2003 at 11:46 AM 3 replies 350+ views

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Jul 14, 2003 at 11:46 AM

WTL pulls it off somehow. Is there any trick to it? Do you just mark every definition inline and put it after the class definition? Reason is when I write little Win32 wrappers for system-level stuff I don''t want to ship another DLL with the project if I don''t have to. I also want to avoid mixing projects if possible.

BitBlt

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BitBlt

Jul 14, 2003 at 1:49 PM

It''s not that difficult:


// Foo.h
//

...

class Foo
{
public:
    Foo()  {}
    ~Foo() {}

    float Stuff(float param)
    {
        float tmp;
        ...
        ...
        return tmp;
    }
    
    ...

private:
    int m_private1;
    int m_private2;
};


// Foo.h
//

...

class Foo
{
public:
    Foo()  {}
    ~Foo() {}

    float Stuff(float param);    
    ...

private:
    int m_private1;
    int m_private2;
};   

float Foo::Stuff(float param)
{
    float tmp;
    ...
    ...
    return tmp;
}

antareus

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antareus

Jul 14, 2003 at 2:21 PM

I figured. As long as the definition is available I won''t need to link anything additional with code using it, correct? (Is that necessarily the same thing as linking?)

BitBlt

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BitBlt

Jul 14, 2003 at 2:48 PM

You won''t have to link anything, just #include the header file.

antareus

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antareus

Jul 14, 2003 at 4:37 PM

Just making sure. Thanks.

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