Matt Schonlau <[email protected]> asked:
> I see with delight that stata now has a plugin facility for C. Does this
> work for C++ code, or does it need to be C?
and
Salah Mahmud <[email protected]> responded:
> It does. It works with any development environment/language that supports
> pointers (variables that store memory locations of other variables) and
> generates standard DLLs (dynamically-loaded Libraries) for the target
> operating system. I know for certain that it works with Delphi
> (Object-oriented version of Pascal) under Windows (I tried that and it works
> without glitch). So it should work with C++.
The plugin facility should in principle work with C++ code, and our initial
testing indicates that it does. Once our testing is completed, we will add
this capability to the web documention for Stata plugins, available at
http://www.stata.com/support/plugins
This should take about one week.
Note that the addition of C++ support will also require an update to
-stplugin.h-, which will also be made available on the web site. Naturally,
the new -stplugin.h- will be fully backwards-compatible.
--Bobby --Kevin
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