C++

22.7    Summary

Let’s conclude with a brief recap:

• Virtually every third-party extension consists of a library and headers.

• Include the header(s) with #include.

• Look at the parameters and return types of the functions and choose the appropriate C++ ones.

• Texts in const char* or char* can usually be provided using string.

• Large dynamic data sets with a raw pointer interact well with vector, unique_ptr, or shared_ptr.

• Specifically, look out for function pairs for resource management and consider managing them with a wrapper class or a custom deleter function via shared_ptr using C++ language features.