Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

[Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de>]

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Jim C. Brown schrieb:
> For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++
> in qemu (something that I would be strongly against).
> 
> http://wxc.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to deal with issues such as
> C++ ABI compatibility by avoiding the direct use of C++.
> 
> There's a QtC that I considered using for a Qt GUI for qemu.
> 

Is wxC still under active development? The CVS version seems to be quite
old, and I also couldn't find any documentation.

Generally it might be quite difficult to find a GUI toolkit with C
bindings (besides GTK), as most toolkits seem to be targeted at an
object-oriented language, and many go into the direction of script
languages and "rapid application development".
So I think we should either just use GTK, or make Qemu ready for
integration of C++ GUI code (and use one of the common GUI toolkits), or
add an interface for external GUIs (and run the GUI as an external
process, written in Python or Perl or the like).

Regards,
Oliver
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