[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:20 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > I think that the claim is that the flat API is C++ based too...
> > 
> > GpPath *is* defined as a class, but only in the most trivial way. 
> > As far as I can see, it's really just an opaque pointer and you could
> > use a C definition like:
> > 
> >  typedef struct GpPath_ GpPath;
> > 
> > and it should work fine.
> 
> The header files for C++ based GdiPlus contain several calls to the Flat
> API so I doubt very much that it is the case.   Tomorrow I can check if
> the libraries link against the C++ runtime.

A library that compiles with a c++ compiler and uses a type that is a
class doesn't necessarily have to link to the C++ runtime.

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