Re: [certi-dev] libFedTime together with a shared libCERTI under Windows?

[Eric Noulard]

2008/11/27 Gotthard, Petr <address@hidden>:
> Hi Eric, hi All,
> can we ever have a standard compliant libFedTime together with a shared
> libCERTI under Windows?
>
> Fact 1: Windows hates circular references in shared libraries (DLL).
>
> Conclusion 1: As libRTI needs to communicate with RTIA, it needs a
> communication library (libCERTI).
>
> Fact 2: The (unbelievably complex) RTI::FedTime concept uses an abstract
> class in the RTI:: namespace that is supposed to handle time calculations.
> This class is user-provided and has no method to extract a float/double
> value. In IEEE 1516.1 this is yet more complex, as we can have either an
> integer- or a float-based time.
>
> Conclusion 2: The absence of cast to float/integer suggests that the RTI::
> functions are meant to use this class directly.
> As the RTIA must use RTI::FedTime (or rti1516::LogicalTime), it must use the
> RTI::Exception, so it needs libRTI.
>
> libRTI needs libCERTI, but also libCERTI needs libRTI
>
> If my conclusions are not wrong, we cannot have compliant RTI::FedTime, use
> shared CERTI under Windows and avoid circular references. Do you see
> something what I don't?

I'm kind of busy right now.
I'll try an answer in hour or two.

-- 
Erk