Re: [Boost-users] Possible to use with JNI?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Possible to use with JNI?
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-15 11:08:41

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Lorenzo Trivelli
<trivelli.lorenzo_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> At 06:30 13/04/2015, you wrote:
>>Hi, I really need to use Java with this library. Is it possible to use JNI on this library or do I need to convert this library to Java? I find the latter task is going to be really difficult so I hope that I can use JNI.
>>
>>Thank you for your help.
>
> Hi, AFAIK it is not easy to do that due to C++ name mangling and
> the absence of any ABI in C++ itself like C
>
> A possible but limited workaround should be to create a DLL with a C interface
> which uses the boost objects you need. Next, you can call it through JNI,
> but obviously you can pass only basic data types

I would concur with this approach: if you can distill an API that
would be useful to your Java environment.

> regardds
> Lorenzo
>
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