Re: [Vala] Define constant at compile time

[Günther Wutz <admin wutzara de>]

It is possible to use cpp as Preprocessor. I'm working on a
wrapper-program to combine cpp and give it valac to compile. The easiest
way i found actually.

best regards,
Wutzara

Am Dienstag, den 16.11.2010, 18:42 +0100 schrieb Aleksander Wabik:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to Vala and I'd like to have some help to solve a small but
> > frustrating problem. Basically, I have a Gtk.UIManager that I want to
> > initialize in this way:
> >
> >  var ui_manager = new Gtk.UIManager();
> >  ui_manager.add_ui_from_file(UI_FILE);
> >
> > I want to specify the constant UI_FILE at compile time, but I don't know
> > how to do that. In C I would write something like that:
> >
> >  #ifndef UI_FILE
> >  #define UI_FILE "default-path.xml"
> >  #endif
> >
> > and then I would call gcc with the option -DUI_FILE="something". I've
> > tried to use the -D option of the Vala compiler, but it doesn't seem to
> > work as I expect. Any ideas?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Andrea
>
> AFAIK it's not possible, and my humble request would be to consider
> developing vala preprocessor into something useful. I want to use it
> too ;)
>
> best regards,
>
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