Question

I have not worked with static libraries before, but now I need to.

Scenario:

I am writing a console app in Unix. I freely use std::string everywhere because it’s easy to do so. However, I recently found out that I have to support it in Windows and a third party application would need API’s to my code (I will not be sharing source, just the DLL).

With this in mind, can I still use std::string everywhere in my code but then provide them with char * when I code the API’s? Would that work?

Answer 1

Yep. Use std::string internally and then just use const char * on the interface functions (which will be converted to std::strings on input.