BRX API on Linux/Mac

The BRX SDK is designed to enable building for multiple CAD platforms from the same source code. The same applies to operating systems. There are some limitations, but the BRX development strategy is to make Windows-based plugin code also build and run on other operating systems like Linux and Mac. For general BRX API information please see the main BRX API topic. The following is specific to BRX API use on Linux and/or Mac platforms.

The BRX SDK provides a basic Windows Platform Emulation layer that supports a large set of Windows API functions on Linux and Mac, including:

• native (Ansi + Unicode) MSVC Runtime and Windows API emulation
• non-GUI MFC classes (CArray, CList, CString, etc.)
• COM-based data types and data classes, and related utility functions (Variant, SafeArray, BSTR, CComBSTR etc.)

Features not currently available on non-Windows operating systems include:

• MFC based user interface extensions (AcUi, AdUi)
• COM interfaces callable from C++
• a few undocumented and global functions that use MFC GUI classes like CWnd are not available.