Using Simkin with your C++ application

Typically you build Simkin into a library to link with your application.

We supply some example project files which build a static library or dynamic library (Windows only).

• Makefile - for use with Linux and gcc
• Simkin.dsw - workspace for use with Visual C++ 6 on Windows
• Simkin_VSNET.sln - "solution" (sic!) for use with Visual C++ .net on Windows
• SimkinCE.vcw - workspace for use with Embedded Visual C++ 3.0 for Windows CE

Simkin source files and classes are all prefixed with "sk" to prevent name clashes with classes in your own application.

Simkin is composed of a core interpreter, plus support for XML and our own "TreeNode" files.

Simkin supports three XML libraries:

• Expat - this is used in conjunction with Simkin's own XML Document Object Model classes. You need to obtain Expat separately from http://expat.sourceforge.net. The version currently integrated with Simkin is 1.95.5

  Note: if you are building for Windows CE or Symbian, you'll currently need our special ports of the Expat library, which you can download from the Simkin site

• Xerces-C from the Apache Foundation. This library is also *not* included in the Simkin distribution, it can be obtained from http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c
  The version currently integrated with Simkin is 2.1.0
  Note for Visual C++ for Windows: you need to build your applications with Code Generation set to "Multithreaded DLL" when using the Xerces-c library
• Microsoft MSXML - from Microsoft Corporation. The library uses the COM classes from msxml.dll.
  Note: this only works on Windows platforms.

File Format	Classes
TreeNode	skTreeNodeObject
Expat XML	skElementObject and skElementExecutable
Xerces XML	skXMLElementObject and skXMLExecutable
Microsoft MSXML	skMSXMLElementObject and skMSXMLExecutable