Re: TC_Bonobo_Unknown and --imodule

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:59, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 01:51, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > That doesn't really tell me why libbonobo* installs the --imodule
> > stubs/skels instead of the regular ones.
> 
> 	It shouldn't install anything but a type library which is built inside
> libbonobo/idl - ie. if libbonobo/idl is installing anything but IDL and
> a single library then something is badly borked.

--imodule seems to generate a 'type library' instead of stubs/skels, so
this seem to be as you intend it.
> 
> > And if we're supposed to generate our own C stub/skels for Bonobo*, it
> > creates the extra problem that they couldn't be linked with libbonobo*
> > because both would contain stuff with the same names.
> 
> 	Libbonobo contains within itself the stubs/skels for the C code 

But it doesn't install the headers for them, right?

> - this
> is done in the standard way with pragmas in the IDL to stop the compiler
> from generating new bindings for the C code; clearly you'll need to
> override that for the C++ wrappers - I know not how that works, the
> invocations we use are:
> 
> #if !defined(__Bonobo_COMPILATION) && defined(__ORBIT_IDL__)
> %{
> #pragma include_defs bonobo/Bonobo.h
> %}
> #pragma inhibit push
> #endif
> 
> .... IDL that will only be built during the Bonobo compilation but whose
> typese will be available when this IDL is included ...
> 
> #if !defined(__Bonobo_COMPILATION) && defined(__ORBIT_IDL__)
> #pragma inhibit pop
> #endif

Given that it's the 'type library' that's installed, not the
stubs/skels, what is the logic in making new stubs/skels include the
'type library' instead of any stubs/skels (whether previously generated
or not).

Maybe I can get to the heart of this with a simpler question: How would
a C coder, using libbonoboui, get a TC_Bonobo_Unknown?. It seems that
he'd have to generate his own stubs/skels for Bonobo_Unknown.idl.

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