?</b><p>

No, they are a substantially different format, and are not recognised at
all.  The DGNdirect library from the <a href="http://www.opendwg.org">OpenDWG
Alliance</a> does support DGN v8.<p>

<li> <b>Is it portable?</b><p>

Yes, fairly, though as distributed it may be necessary to tweak the
cpl_port.h and cpl_config.h files for different platforms.  It was developed
on Linux for a client deploying on MacOS, and Windows.<p>

<li> <b>Does it require a lot of memory?</b><p>

Generally speaking no.  Only