Hi Jean-Marc,

sure, I am happy to test.

Cheers,
Dirk

On 09/01/14 11:21, jean-marc Mercier wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> I am currently trying to compile this project with GCC / MINGW under
> eclipse. With eclipse, I should be able to provide a unix compatible
> makefile. Once produced, could you be kind enough to test ?
>
> To answer your thoughts :
> - PugiXML (or any C++ library with XPATH support) is a very efficient way
> to bind C++ with XML. It seems natural to provide an example using it. I'll
> provide also a very simple example without.
> - std::wstring_convert. It is necessary for utf8 support, but you're right,
> it seems not to be supported. I removed all references to it, but there
> will not be any utf8 support.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jean-Marc
>
>
>
> 2014/1/8 Dirk Kirsten <dk@basex.org>
>
>> Hi Jean-Marc,
>>
>> I did take a (very) quick look at it. However, I failed to compile this
>> on my linux machine using gcc. Some thoughts:
>>
>>  - PugiXML seems to be used just for the example, I guess (because
>> requiring another XPath processor to connect to BaseX would be weird).
>> Seems easier to me to simplify the example and just execute a simple
>> XQuery without relying on PugiXML
>>  - You use TCHAR, this seems to be windows specific.
>>  - std::wstring_convert isn't supported by gcc, it seems
>>  - It would be really nice to have a simply Makefile
>>  - Please be careful with case-sensitivity. BasexClient.h and
>> BaseXClient.h aren't the same using a case-sensitive file system.
>>
>> In general, I think it would be very beneficial for BaseX to have an C++
>> client which compiles on every major platform. So we might want to add a
>> more polished version of your connector to the official BaseX release.
>> However, as already mentioned, there still seems to be some work to do
>> and I am not sure anyone in the BaseX core team has any particular C++
>> skills ... so every outside contribution is (as always) more than welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dirk
>>
>> On 08/01/14 15:13, jean-marc Mercier wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> C++ users could be interested in this first "quick and dirty" version of
>> a
>>> C++ API for BaseX, located at https://github.com/JohnLeM/BaseXCPPAPI.
>> Even
>>> if this v0.0 version is built upon Visual C++ 2012 Express, the C++ code
>>> should be multi platform. Hence, if there is any C++ / Unix / gcc BaseX
>>> users, do not hesitate to ask for a make file.
>>>
>>> To BaseX team : you could also be interested to including a cleaner
>> version
>>> of this work to your API set for your C++ clients.
>>>
>>> This API is built upon :
>>>
>>> - boost::asio libray for the TCP connector (http://www.boost.org/)
>>> - PugiXML (https://code.google.com/p/pugixml/) for a lightweight C++
>> parser
>>> with XPATH 1.0 support.
>>>
>>> The provided example is a simple construction of an integer list.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Jean-Marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
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