C++ Software Interoperability for Windows Programmers: Connecting to C#, R, and Python Clients

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A. GladstoneC++ Software Interoperability for Windows Programmershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7966-3_1

1. Preliminaries

Adam Gladstone¹  

(1)

Madrid, Spain

 

Introduction

This chapter introduces the Software Interoperability project. We take a brief look at the prerequisites first. This is followed by an overview of the project. Finally, we describe the main components of the projects and how these are organized.

Prerequisites

For the projects described in this book, the main tool we use is Visual Studio Community Edition 2019, with both C++17 and the latest .NET framework workloads installed. We also make use of Boost, specifically Boost version 1.76. The ...