[Geany-Devel] geany-plugins fail to build with msvc

[Lex Trotman]

On 17 April 2013 06:21, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On 16/04/13 20:26, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I run 'python waf configure' under Windows, it detects msvc before
> > gcc, but 'python waf make' produces lots of:
> >
> > cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option
> > '-mms-bitfields'
> >
> > warnings, and then stops with:
> >
> > bibtex.c
> > ...\geanylatex\src\templates.h(81) : error C2143: syntax error :
> > missing ')' before '*'
> > ...\geanylatex\src\templates.h(81) : error C2143: syntax error :
> > missing '{' before '*'
> > ...\geanylatex\src \templates.h(81) : error C2040: 'gpointer' : 'int'
> > differs in levels of indirection from 'void *'
> > ...\geanylatex\src \templates.h(81) : error C2143: syntax error :
> > missing ';' before '*'
> > ...\geanylatex\src \templates.h(81) : error C2059: syntax error :
> > ')'
> >
> > This is with geany-plugins 2013-03-12.
> >
> > Info(gcc) says that "-m[no-]ms-bitfields is provided for the Microsoft
> > Windows X86 compilers to match the native Microsoft compiler", so it's
> > obviously useless for the MS compiler itself.
> >
> > The errors may be caused by cl confusing 'template' with the C++
> > keyword, I haven't checked.
> >
> > Do we support msvc in the first place?..
>
> I'd say not yet.
> I don't have MSVC and so could not test it. Do you have any clue where
> the -mms-bitfields comes from? I couldn't find any reference in the
> whole repository.
>

Would Waf not set the options?



>
> If the errors are only because of a naming clash, this would be quite
> easy to fix I guess.
>
>
> Btw, does Geany build with MSVC?
>

Note that as I understand it, it would not necessarily work to use a plugin
compiled with msvc and a Geany compiled with gcc.  It might, but no
guarantee.

Cheers
Lex



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> Enrico
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