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"STARRITT, Andrew via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Sun, 6 Feb 2022 23:45:57 +0000

Hi Laurenz,
Another option is the acai library here: https://github.com/andrewstarritt/acai
It provides C++ classes, and the client class has virtual functions for call backs.
It is used by the EPICS Qt framework and by other applications at the Australian Synchrotron.

Regards
Andrew
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The ezca library is one such wrapper.  https://github.com/epics-extensions/ezca

It is not C++ classes, but it does remove the need to write callback functions, etc.  It lets you do basic Channel Access in a few lines of code.

Mark

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Hello,

This might sound like a stupid question, as epics is written in c, but I am looking for a _simple and convenient_ way to add channel-access support to a c++ program (that has nothing to do with epics so far, on windows), i.e. reading and writing from and to epics channels. Best would be to just import an epics library if possible? In many programming languages there are quite convenient wrappers for this (e.g. 
python), but for c/c++ I did not find anything similar. Could anyone point me to a good example for such a case?

Thanks, Laurenz

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