The cppwinrt project focused to consume Microsoft provided OS winrt components and it doesn’t support building a winrt component(yet) although they mentioned it will be supported later.
Even though it’s not technically supported yet, we still can create a winrt component with WRL(pure C++ and non C++/CX) and still can get some benefits from using cppwinrt within WRL component.
For example, I created a WinRT sample component with WRL and exports IAsyncAction async methods from it. Inside the method, I utilized the cppwinrt provided coroutine method which easily can produce IAsync operations. See the following:
https://github.com/heejune/wrl-cppwinrt-sample/blob/async-support/SampleLib.Shared/DemoCore.cpp
There’s a DemoCore::GetCppwinrtDataasync method defined as this:
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| winrt::Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<int> GetAsyncOp() | |
| { | |
| using namespace winrt; | |
| using namespace Windows::Foundation; | |
| for (int i = 0; i != 5; ++i) | |
| { | |
| co_await 5000ms; | |
| } | |
| co_return 1; | |
| } | |
| STDMETHODIMP DemoCore::GetCppwinrtDataAsync(::ABI::Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<int>** value) | |
| { | |
| auto asyncOp = GetAsyncOp(); | |
| *value = reinterpret_cast<::ABI::Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<int>*>(winrt::detach(asyncOp)); | |
| return S_OK; | |
| } |
It just (detached and) returns the object which also returned from GetAsyncOp private method. GetAsyncOp is a coroutine function which also creates an instance of winrt::Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation. And that’s the winrt implementation of IAsyncOperation.
You can download the source project and test it from https://github.com/heejune/wrl-cppwinrt-sample/tree/async-support
Thanks,
Heejune
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