C++ CGI

[Andy Nguyen]

Anyone has experience in making C++ available as cgi script so it can be used online?
Besides C++ CGI, anyone know if there are alternatives to making your C++ code available online?

 

[wildcolor]

Have only used Perl and CGI before. After looked it in google, did found some possibility useful links. Not sure if they can help you?

C++ webservices:
gSOAP:
gSOAP: SOAP C++ Web Services

XML based ASP.net webservice
Walkthrough: Creating an XML Web Service Using C++ and the CLR

XML-RPC
Enable C++ applications for Web service using XML-RPC

wt: c++ web toolkit
Wt, C++ Web Toolkit - Introduction

Anyone has experience in making C++ available as cgi script so it can be used online?
Besides C++ CGI, anyone know if there are alternatives to making your C++ code available online?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

The Wt has been mentioned by a few people. Some have suggested Ruby on Rail to me so I can run C# code. Other suggestion is to wrap C++ as PHP extension.
Wrapping C++ Classes in a PHP Extension
Another possibility http://code.google.com/p/nanogear/

For the time being, I'm considering only CGI approach because I have compiled C++ to cgi on this server before (for the mathtex engine) and just ran some testing with a simple C++ code. It worked so I'm reading into parsing the input form into some Black-Scholes pricing library now.

 

[satyag]

If you are looking for a quick and dirty solution, I suggest you write a perl cgi wrapper script that does all the dirty work of parsing parameters. You can then pass this as command line arguments to your c++ task.

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There are also perl-c++ glue solutions like Inline::CPP and SWIG. I haven't used them in a long time but there is good documentation on these.

 

[cgorac]

Never used it in the context of wrapping for Web, but I find SWIG to be by far the most mature solution for wrapping C/C++ code for myriad of scripting languages.