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

• To: Dan Kelley <kelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: c++ support: will it be in form of a library?
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:00:42 -0700

Dan,

> 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.

The new C++ patch is now available from 

    ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/2.3.2-patch4

and includes changes to the c++-directory Makefile so it builds a library
instead of just object files.  Thanks for the good suggestion.

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Russ Rew                                                UCAR Unidata Program
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http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/                          Boulder, CO 80307-3000
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