C++ graphics engine?

[luzi82]

hi all,

I am planning ( just planning ) to make a C++ 3D graphics engine for OTTD. However, I am not familiar with the OTTD code, and not familiar with using C and C++ together.

Um, I am planning to use Crystal Space (CS) to make the engine.
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
it is open source and works with Win32 and Linux ( others not sure )

So I would like to ask some silly questions here

is it possible to have a C++ engine working together? I am worrying that the product would become useless when it is made.

Also I do not have VC++ at all
just mingw and Dev-C++
I would like to know if they can works together...

thanks a lot!!!

[DaleStan]

If you can compile the source, you're probably good to go, regardless of which compiler you use.

To get C++ and C to work together, the prototypes of all functions with C-style linkage (those coded in C, not C++) must be enclosed in

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extern "C" {
//...
}

blocks when appearing in C++ source. The easiest way to do this is probably to enclose the #includes for the OTTD header files in an extern block.