Compilers and the Rulbus Device Class Library
[User Manual]

This section describes some implementation details, that nonetheless may be important if you want to use the library with another compiler than Borland C++.

Compiler

The Rulbus Device Class Library (RDCL) has been developed together with the Rulbus LabVIEW Library (RLL) and the the Rulbus Device Library (RDL).

RDL and RDCL have been developed with Borland C++ 5.6.
Some reasons to use Borland C++ are:

• it is a 32-bit Windows native compiler that supports the creation of DLLs well
• it supports standard C++ exception handling

See section "Compilers and the Rulbus Device Library" of the Rulbus Device Library manual for more information on the implications of this choice.

Compiling programs with Borland C++

Here, {include-path} specifies the directory with the header files and {library-path} specifies the directory with rulbusdcl-omf-static.lib and winutils-omf-static.lib.

bcc32 -tWM -I(include-path) -L{library-path} {program}.cpp  \
           rulbusdcl-omf-static.lib winutils-omf-static.lib

Option -tWM specifies that the program must be linked with the multi-threaded C runtime library.

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