I'm trying to glue together two libraries where
lib1 is providing scripts to lib2.
The libraries are used in c++11 code I'm writing. I can't modify those libs.
Scripts in lib1 are embedded into the shared object with https://github.com/vector-of-bool/cmrc.
The content of each script can be accessed with an iterator, like so
cmrc::embedded_filesystem fs=cmrc::hpo::get_filesystem()
auto script1 = fs.open("script1")
# use iterator for script1...
However, lib2 function requires 'physical' file: void file(const char *);
I know I can dump content from lib1 iterator to a temp file, read it with lib2 and then remove the file. This solution sounds rather sub optimal and I'm looking for a better way.
While named pipes are usually used for inter-process communication, they also work intra-process. And on many Operating Systems, including Windows, they have a name that's part of the file system namespace. Hence you can usually pass a pipe name to libraries which expect file names.