At some point we’ll want our C++ code to interface with other languages, but since C is the standard, we have to find ways to adapt our C++ code to allow interaction via a C interface. A C API is a group of functions that allows other programs …

This article describes how to create a simple static library using C++. A static library is a collection of object files that are linked with and copied into a target application at compile time. The resulting executable contains all the object code …

In this article, we’ll see how to create and use C++20 modules. We’ll use clang-16 to compile our code.

Prerequisites

OSX comes with clang-14 by default (2023). We can check its version with the following command:

1clang --version
2Apple …

The examples in this article use C++17 or later. I use the Helix editor, hx, with clangd for language support, which supports C++17 by default. If you want to change the language version, for example to C++20, you need a compile_flags.txt file like …

This article describes how to create a simple shared library using C++. A shared library is a collection of object files that are linked with and loaded into a target application at runtime. The resulting executable contains only the object code that …