[fpc-pascal](no subject)

[Lee, John]

Looks quite tricky stuff...You could try translating it, but as you indicate
it would not be easy...it'd be better IMHO to keep it as C++ & interface to
it, because that way you would be able to take advantage of the testing done
by the author & others & not have to re test extensively. Any faults flagged
by other C++ users could be easily incorporated - retesting & then finding
the faults would be non trivial I guess... 

So my vote is for the wrapper... assuming that can be done easily...others
will tell you about that! 

Regards John

-----Original Message-----
From: Cox, Stuart SRM:EX [mailto:Stuart.Cox at gems1.gov.bc.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 17:41
To: 'Free Pascal Group'
Subject: [fpc-pascal](no subject)


Hello all,

I'm interested in geometric algorithms and I do most of my serious work in
Pascal.  The link below is to a polygon overlay algorithm in C++.

http://home.attbi.com/~msleonov/pb.html

It is quite beyond me to translate this into object Pascal of any flavor.
If it was possible to translate it into Pascal, could the resulting
translation be used by all Pascal programmers in accord with the licensing
scheme accompanying the original C++ code?

Would it be better to compile the PolyBoolean C++ code as, say, a .DLL and
then write an interface to it in Pascal.

Would anyone care to help in advising me on these matters?  Thanks.


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