[Development] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Could support for C be added to Qt?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Sep 15 22:00:24 CEST 2022


On Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:20:37 PDT samuel ammonius wrote:
> It's really hard to imagine what SWIG's output looks like without seeing it
> for
> yourself, so I'll just post one of the outputs here. This was the shortest,
> most
> readable, and most C/C++ compatible output I could get from all the target
> languages available in SWIG.
> 
> pastebin link <https://pastebin.com/gfkj6Bug>
> 
> I think it makes a bit more sense now why it would probably be harder to
> wrap SWIG's output than to wrap C++ directly.

Even though that code has #ifdef __cplusplus, the code doesn't compile as C. 
This is C++.

The question is what the C API would look like, in a header compileable as C.

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