c++ support: will it be in form of a library?

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• Subject: c++ support: will it be in form of a library?
• From: Dan Kelley <kelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 09:42:08 -0400

> 01/30 Russ Rew -- Re: c++ support for g++ compiler?
>...
> A patch is available for the netcdf-232p12 distribution that includes
> changes needed to make it work with the GNU g++ compiler.
>...


Will the new C++ support be in the form of a library to be compiled
once and then linked with various user programs?  The present system,
with a couple of C++ files to be compiled into .o files and then
linked with the user program, is somewhat inconvenient.  There would
be a real advantage in writing e.g.
        g++ -o myprog myprog.c -lnetcdf -lnetcdf-c++ -lm
in a Makefile.  Plus, unix has a simple system for dealing with
libSOMETHING.a files (e.g. directories where they are stored), whereas
there is no well-known system for individual .o files to be linked
with projects.

I tried to hack the Makefile but didn't get very far, probably because
I'm not a programmer.  If the creation of a library would take only a
few minutes of a programmer's time, it would be *well* worth it, since
it would encourage folks like me to switch to the apparently elegant
C++ method of handling netcdf.

Dan.

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