Re: ipdl compile error

On 8/18/09 2:46 AM, Tibor Mezei wrote:
> I'm trying to compile my ipdl file to c++ files(make -C
> $OBJDIR/ipc/ipdl), but I get the following error:
> 
> /home/zemei/mozilla/src/modules/libpref/ipc/Preferences.ipdl:14:
> error: argument typename `String' of message `GetCharPref' has not
> been declared
> Specification is not well typed.
> 
> First I tried with non-capital s, but that has the same problem.
> After that i check the ipc/test-harness/Test.ipdl file.
> There are String types with capital S, but don't know what's the problem.

I believe we removed the magic `String` type. Use nsCString for narrow
(char*) strings and nsString for wide (PRUnichar*) strings. You may need to
add a `using nsCString;` declaration to the head of your .ipdl file.

--BDS