Linking the library to a simple executable with a main() function

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The CMake target OdbDesignApp contains a working example demonstrating how to link the library to a simple executable that contains a main() function.

Currently the OdbDesignApp target is only available in the development branch

In it you will find the OdbDesignApp.cpp file.

It also demonstrates how to load, parse, and access data from two different ODB++ file archives.

The parsed data is available at two different abstraction levels:

• The FileArchive class contains all the data exactly as it is laid out in the directory structure of the ODB++ file archive. If you need the low-level data such as traces, pads, symbols, features, parts, etc. you can access that data through the FileArchive class' object members.
• The Design class provides an abstraction one level higher, combining all the records in the files into a coherent netlist with which components are connected through which pins.

Depending on what data you are interested in, you may need to use one or the other (or both).