[Gdal-dev] Re: Using GDAL in Linux ANSI C

[Frank Warmerdam]

Brian S. Dixon wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
>   Our s/w is ANSI C, compiled with gcc ...Like I mentioned before, GDAL is
> all new to me so I have some basic questions.  It looks like GDAL is written
> in C++ ...I've never tried to utilize C++ libraries from a C program before
> (usually the other way around).  Is this possible?  Porting our code to C++
> is a much larger project...

Brian,

Conveniently GDAL has C cover functions already!

If you look in gdal.h you will see the C API.  Most of the C++ method
documentation refers to the related C entry point, though there is no
documentation for the C entry points so you need to work it out by
examining the prototypes.

Best regards,
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