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Michelle Konzack <starone AT cybercable DOT fr> wrote in message
news:3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 16 DOT 19991019220116 DOT 35c76190 AT mail DOT cybercable DOT fr...
> Hello Eli and good evening/afternoon
>
> Can you explain me what is

I'll explain what Eli said in terms of Shawn Hargreaves's
graphics and sound library Allegro.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

>         "define a high-level abstract layer of functions"

Create a common allegro.h

> And with
>
>         "make every platform provide a platformspecific
>         implementation of those functions"
>
> You mean I must program my e.g. main.c and for every OS I
> like to compile I must program a dos.c or linux.c with the
> same functions but correspond to the platform ???

Write general wrappers that call platform-specific
drivers. A graphics and sound library would do this:

To implement graphics functions:
The DOS version would use vesa.c
The Windows version would use directx.c
The Linux version would use xwindows.c or fbcon.c

To implement waves and MIDI:
All would use sound.c (a wrapper)
The DOS version would use sb.c
The Windows version would use mci.c

> and then I must compile the ensemble "main.c + dos.c" and
> "main.c + linux.c"

Yes. You seem to understand now.

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