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_3

3. Building a C++/CLI Wrapper

Adam Gladstone¹  

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Madrid, Spain

 

Introduction

In this chapter, we build our first wrapper component. We use C++/CLI which allows .NET clients to call C++ code. We take StatsLib, our small library of statistical functions that we built in Chapter 2, and expose the functionality via C++/CLI.

The intention of this chapter is to create a fully working and usable .NET component, albeit with limited functionality. The reason for this is to cover as many of the technical details as possible in a realistic context. On the other ...