Looking for C++ ID3 library

[Anakashar]

not sure why my full code needs to be posted for this

anyway, the "ID3_Tag Tag;" part is listed in the documentation http://id3lib.sourceforge.net after making it part of my environment and including the #include <id3/tag.h> file.

if i don't use "ID3_Tag Tag;" in my code, and compile it with just an "#include <id3/tag.h>" and link the library, most of the time it compiles without any problems. Once I do include the "ID3_Tag Tag;" portion (with the last "Tag" being just the name of the variable for simplicity), the linker errors show up. If I do almost anything to it, as well, it comes up barking at me that there's a problem in the "id3lib_frame.h" file concerning the "id3/globals.h" file. The error explanation it gives? highlighting the line "#include <id3/globals.h>"

If I include ID3LIB_LINKOPTION 1, 2, or 3, it throws up the linker errors.

I know this probably shouldn't be this hard, but I am using DevCPP, with the MinGW compiler. No VS/VC/MS compiled thing will work with this, I've read. In this effort, I'm trying to compile the lib and dll myself, with as much success as trying to use the lib files.

[DJMaze]

id3/tag.h

class ID3_CPP_EXPORT ID3_Tag
{

If you did carefully read my post on the previous page then i said you CAN'T use classes between compilers when using static compile (.dll)
So compile the full source into your project.

This means your makefile should compile all .c files of the id3lib OR use my previous example which is an example in C and not C++.

Closed source or not, i think you should learn about compilers, c++ and namemangling to fully understand why classes in dll's are bad.

[DJMaze]

Originally Posted by Anakashar

my full code would take about 30 seconds of scrolling if i posted it all. and it's closed-source.

Damned why didn't i read that.
Where did you get the nerve to ask help on a website like this?
Do we get any credit in your software for it?

Therefore i think websites like this should have a CC license that forces people to give credit so i don't have to answer questions for money making software.

Hereby i'm requesting the admins if they can delete my posts from this topic untill the CC is in place.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

[thedp]

DJMaze, relax...
Close Source doesn't always mean Commercial.
There are many Freeware applications that are closed source.

But I do agree with you, credits could be nice.

[DJMaze]

hehehe i'm relaxed, but not knowing the purpose of a closed source project does make you wonder if its commercial.

Secondly, i'm not the one that should provide an unit test for ID3Lib

P.S. As you can see my signature does have a CC now so that students and commercial authors can't just copy/paste my stuff without thinking. Use it as it should be: reference