Background: Macromedia have released a flashSDK which provides some C++ code and some binaries that allow you to convert Flash SWF files into HTML containing the text and links. I am making an XS wrapper using their C++ code so that you can easily do the conversion from within Perl with the plan of releasing it on CPAN.

Essentially the framework is very simple. They provide a Swf2HtmlConverterStdio class that has a ConvertSwf2Htm method which takes an input and output stream.

At the moment all I am trying to do is create/destroy the Class object. It all compiles fine on Linux with g++ but with cl.exe on Win32 it chokes on the line with a link error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol....

The XS I am using at the moment is stripped right down to just this: 

#include "swf2html_stdio.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#include "EXTERN.h"
#include "perl.h"
#include "XSUB.h"
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

MODULE = Flash          PACKAGE = Flash

Swf2HtmlConverterStdio *
Swf2HtmlConverterStdio::new()

void
Swf2HtmlConverterStdio::DESTROY()

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You can browse the code at: http://tachyon.perlmonk.org/Flash/ or download a tar.gz that contains the whole thing from http://tachyon.perlmonk.org/flash.tar.gz

The flashSDK is in ./inc along with its HTML README. The win32 issue is in WIN32_CHOKE.txt I don't do much C++ but assume it is something fairly simple that is not being included.

Any suggestions welcome.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to C++ and XS compile issues on Win32 by tachyon

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