Re: Generated Headers - Quite the Can of Worms

Vin Shelton writes:

> First the good news - with your patches applied, I succeeded in building a
> 64-bit cygwin XEmacs executable.

Good news, yes, thanks for pressing ahead!

> Now the bad news - that patched XEmacs does not build under Windows native
> (at least on the 32-bit XP VM I use for Native Windows kits).

So, what compiler are you using at this point -- some MS compiler, or
are we talking mingw here?

> After running the make-mswin-unicode.pl script, I get a bunch of
> definitions that refer to WINBOOL, which is not a native Windows type.

Hmm.  I suspect a combination of my bad memory and unfamiliarity with
the overall build architecture is to blame, but I didn't think your
should have to run that at all, should you?  If you did, it should be
part of configure, right?  I will have to try harder to understand the
division of labour.

> Here is the first such message:
>
> console-msw.c
> C:\Cyg_opt\src\xemacs-21.5-2015-03-26\src\intl-auto-encap-win32.h(105) :
> error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier
> 'qxeSHGetNewLinkInfo'

Can you send a copy of your intl-auto-encap-win32.h, so I can look at
what is different?

> Any thoughts on how to get the WINBOOL, etc types defined for the native
> Windows build?

Not yet :-(.

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