Re: C++ Bindings Generate static const Code that will not Compile

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

lgust verizon net wrote:

> Hi Bowie,
>
> We checked out a copy of the orbitcpp module from CVS. After we
> built and installed orbitcpp, I still see the same erroneous code:
>
> #undef SIZE
>        static  const char *SIZE = "SIZE";
>  
Can you check the ChangeLog and make sure there is an entry that reads 
(should be at the top):

2003-11-20 Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>
       * orbitcpp/idl-compiler/types/IDLString.cc
       * test/cpp/everything/everything.idl:
       Fix constness of string constants.

And check that line 40 of orbitcpp/idl-compiler/types/IDLString.cc reads:

   ostr << indent << "char const* const " << cpp_id << " = " << value


The anonymous cvs server may take a little while to sync with the 
developer server. If that was the problem, you can do a cvs update to 
bring your checkout copy up to date.

> I noticed that building the orbitcpp package replaced the following
> shared library:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 nfr      engr           51 Nov 21 09:47 libORBit-2-cpp.so -> ../stow/orbitcpp-cvs-20031120/lib/libORBit-2-cpp.so
>
> But it didn't replace the IDL compiler:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 nfr      engr           36 Nov 18 11:51 orbit-idl-2 -> ../stow/ORBit2-2.7.6/bin/orbit-idl-2
>
> Do we need to rebuild both the ORBit2 and orbitcpp packages from CVS to get your changes to work?
>  
No. Each language binding has it's own backend. Each backend is simply a 
.so/dll that implements a function which the idl compiler will call. So 
you can add new language bindings (or fix broken ones) without changing 
the lexer/parser.


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