Posted By
IstvanV
on 2008-07-01
18:08:05
|  Re: plus4emu 1.2.6
In fact, I have already thought of using the emulator engine as a library in other programs (a very simple example is the preview mode of the p4fliconv image converter), which would be an interesting idea for an IDE, for example, but other uses are also possible. However, when I brought this up earlier, it did not seem to draw much attention, so I more or less forgot about it until now 
The emulator actually does have a design that would allow for using parts of it as a library without major changes, and there are relatively well defined internal interfaces (e.g. http://plus4emu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/plus4emu/plus4emu/src/plus4vm.hpp?view=markup includes methods that are much like what you suggest). However, it is all in C++, so for use in a DLL, a C wrapper interface needs to be created to avoid problems like compiler-specific C++ ABIs.
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