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  <refmeta> <refentrytitle>libvips from C++</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>3</manvolnum> <refmiscinfo>libvips</refmiscinfo> </refmeta>
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  <refnamediv> <refname>C++</refname> <refpurpose>Using libvips from C++</refpurpose> </refnamediv>
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  libvips comes with a convenient C++ API. It is a very thin wrapper over the C API and adds automatic reference counting, exceptions, operator overloads, and automatic constant expansion.
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<para>
  See the <ulink url="https://libvips.github.io/libvips/API/current/cpp"> C++ API documentation</ulink> for more details.
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