[hdf-forum] C++ and hdf5

[Mag Gam]

Thanks for the response. I think I will stick with the C interface or
even dive into Python.

It seems h5py is well maintained.



On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Binh-Minh Ribler<bmribler at hdfgroup.org> wrote:
> Hi Mag,
>
> The C++ API is not funded and so it is not fully supported yet.  That is, it
> doesn't have wrappers for many C functions.  However, I've seen C++
> applications call some C functions directly when their wrapper is not
> available in the C++ API.  You just need to pass in <C++ API object>.getId()
> as an id to the C function.
>
> In order to build the C++ API, you need to put --enable-cxx on the
> ./configure line.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Binh-Minh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mag Gam [mailto:magawake at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:06 PM
> To: hdf-forum at hdfgroup.org
> Subject: [hdf-forum] C++ and hdf5
>
> I have been working with hdf5 and its C API. I like/love it :-)
>
> However, I would love to try out the C++ API. Is there anything
> special I need to do to get the C++ api to compile when doing
> ./configure in the hdf5 source directory? It does not create the
> hdf5c++ program for me. Any thoughts?
>
> TIA
>
> Also, is it "easier" to go with the C++ API versus the C API?
>
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