C++ Bindings

Dmitry testbomber at gmail.com
Sat May 11 06:14:45 PDT 2013


Jon,

dbus-c++ quite good for simple client/server applications ( in my previous
work we have used it and patch it time to time :)  )
QtDbus also good but have a problem with non standard types and unicast
signals.


2013/5/11 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>

> On sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2013 11.20.24, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >     I'm starting to evaluate whether dbus is the right solution for my
> > project.  As I understand it, rather than trying to build an application
> > directly on top of libdbus, I should use one of the bindings found here:
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings
> >
> >     There are two recommended C++ bindings, dbus-c++ and dbus-cxx.  Is
> one
> > of these particularly recommended over the other?
>
> I'd say neither is recommended at this point.
>
> > I noticed that the last
> > release of dbus-cxx was over 3 years ago, so I'm wondering if it is still
> > actively being maintained.
> >
> >     Also, what is particularly painful about building an application on
> top
> > of libdbus itself?  It seems that I may be faced with the choice of
> using a
> > potentially buggy binding which is no longer maintained, or using the
> core
> > library which might make implementation more difficult.  Its not
> > immediately clear to me which way to go at this point.
>
> You're right, but there's a third alternative: use another binding, which
> is
> maintained.
>
> GDBus and QtDBus are actively maintained.
>
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