Re: kbuild & C++

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Budde, Marco wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for one of our customers I have to port a Windows driver to
> Linux. Large parts of the driver's backend code consists of
> C++.
>
> How can I compile this code with kbuild? The C++ support
> (I have tested with 2.6.11) of kbuild seems to be incomplete /
> not working.
>
> cu, Marco
>
> Please send me a CC as e-mail.
>

The kernel is written in C and assembly. You need to port
the "kernel part" of your driver to C. Often windows "drivers"
are much more than "drivers" as known in Linux and Unix. They
often are the interface to another API such as LabVIEW,
Lab/Windows, CVI, etc., really an interface library. In
that case, the user-mode portion can be ported, often with
few changes, using C++.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13 on an i686 machine (5589.54 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
.
I apologize for the following. I tried to kill it with the above dot :

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