Re: [Vala] Vala on win32

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Hans,

On Son, 2007-05-06 at 22:58 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote:
> Hi,
> recently I stumbled over Vala and immediately liked the concept. As a long
> term win32 gtk+ developer the first thing I've done was to port Vala to
> win32 following the pattern from:
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/trunk/README.win32?revision=5294&view=markup

Nice, thanks.

> Given that the Vala compiler is written in Vala but the generated C source
> was not compilable as is with msvc, I needed a combination of modifying
> generated sources and regeneration on linux.

Developing self-hosting compilers can be tricky sometimes ;)

> Is the following patch acceptable?
>
> * vapi/glib-2.0.vala : instead of strtoll() map to g_ascii_strtoll() to for
> increased portability
>
> * gobject/valacodegenerator.vala : avoid empty struct declaration which is
> a gccism

Committed to SVN.

> * gobject/valacodegeneratorclass.vala gobject/valacodegeneratormethod.vala
> vala/valatyperegisterfunction.vala : don't use of 'cdecl' as variable name,
> it's a keyword to specify the calling convention with windoze compilers

I've added keyword awareness to the code generator, seems to make more
sense than restricting variable names within vala.

> * vala/parser.y : declare variables at the beginning of blocks as required
> for c89

Committed to SVN.

> There are much more issues with the use of c99 and the msvc compiler, but
> I've written a Python script to deal with them.

Could you list the issues or send me the script, maybe we can integrate
(some of) the changes into the code generator.

Jürg