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2018-05-15 03:13:16 +00:00
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<topic id="topic_jrb_pxx_5db">
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<title>A C API</title>
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<body>
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<p>Unlike many modern APIs with which programmers will be more familiar with these days,
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the GPGME API is a C API. The API is intended for use by C coders who would be able to
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access its features by including the =gpgme.h= header file with their own C source code and
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then access its functions just as they would any other C headers.</p>
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<p>This is a very effective method of gaining complete access to the API and in the most
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efficient manner possible. It does, however, have the drawback that it cannot be directly
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used by other languages without some means of providing an interface to those languages.
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This is where the need for bindings in various languages stems.</p>
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</body>
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</topic>
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