thermal-desktop-results-reader

Thermal Desktop Results Reader

This application demonstrates how to connect Thermal Desktop OpenTD APIs to System Coupling Participant library APIs.

It uses C++/CLI language (a kind of a hybrid between C# and C++) to tie the .NET DLL and regular DLL with C++ interfaces in a single application.

You will need two sets of DLLs:

1. OpenTD DLLs - OpenTDv232.dll - OpenTDv232.Results.dll - SinapsXNet.dll - CRlog4Net.dll
2. SCP Library DLLs - SysC.SystemCouplingParticipant.lib (for build-time) - SysC.SystemCouplingParticipant.dll (for run-time) - mpi_wrapper.dll (for run-time)

Compilation command

A simple way to compile this using MSVC compiler:

cl /clr /std:c++17 /O2 /EHa /nologo /I"C:\ANSYSDev\ANSYS Inc\v242\SystemCoupling\runTime\winx64\include" /FU"CRlog4Net.dll" /FU"OpenTDv232.dll" /FU"OpenTDv232.Results.dll" /FU"SinapsXNet.dll" TDResultsReader.cpp /link /subsystem:console /LIBPATH:"C:\ANSYSDev\ANSYS Inc\v242\SystemCoupling\runTime\winx64\lib" "SysC.SystemCouplingParticipant.lib"

Alternativly, use Visual Studio to create "CLR Console App" project. A pre-configured project is included in this repo. Main steps:

• "CLR Console App" as project type.
• Use .NET Framework 4.8
• Use C++17
• Add this includes directory: \SystemCoupling\runTime\winx64\include
• Add this lib: SysC.SystemCouplingParticipant.lib
• Add above-mentioned .NET references
• Turn off pre-compiled headers options