[gambit-list] Build gambit on windows using c++ compiler
Kartik Saranathan
ksaranat at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 00:59:23 EDT 2010
There were a few compile errors when trying to build gambit with the visual
studio c++ compiler. After these changes gambit seems to work fine. Marc,
maybe you can include them in the source. Thanks.
---
diff -rup ..\..\..\..\..\temp\gambc-v4_6_0-devel\lib\os_files.c .\os_files.c
--- ..\..\..\..\..\temp\gambc-v4_6_0-devel\lib\os_files.c Thu Jan 07
12:58:49 2010
+++ .\os_files.c Sat Apr 03 00:03:18 2010
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ ___SCMOBJ ___os_path_gambcdir ___PVOID
#ifdef _UNICODE
_tcscpy (gambcdir, temp);
#else
- mbstowcs (gambcdir, temp, cch);
+ mbstowcs ((wchar_t *)gambcdir, temp, cch);
gambcdir[cch] = '\0';
#endif
___setup_params.gambcdir = gambcdir;
diff -rup ..\..\..\..\..\temp\gambc-v4_6_0-devel\lib\os_tty.c .\os_tty.c
--- ..\..\..\..\..\temp\gambc-v4_6_0-devel\lib\os_tty.c Thu Jan 07
12:58:49 2010
+++ .\os_tty.c Sat Apr 03 00:09:42 2010
@@ -3391,7 +3391,7 @@ ___U8 *text_arg;)
{
if (text_arg != NULL)
{
- SetWindowTextA (cons_wind, text_arg); /* ignore error */
+ SetWindowTextA (cons_wind, (LPCSTR)text_arg); /* ignore
error */
}
else
{
@@ -4491,7 +4491,7 @@ int len;)
if (global_copy != NULL)
{
- ___U16 *locked_copy = GlobalLock (global_copy);
+ ___U16 *locked_copy = (___U16 *)GlobalLock (global_copy);
if (locked_copy == NULL)
GlobalFree (global_copy);
@@ -4576,7 +4576,7 @@ ___device_tty *self;)
if (global_copy != NULL)
{
- ___U16 *locked_copy = GlobalLock (global_copy);
+ ___U16 *locked_copy = (___U16 *)GlobalLock (global_copy);
if (locked_copy != NULL)
{
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Kartik Saranathan <ksaranat at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I'd like to compile and link gambit generated code with C++ code. Looking
> at previous posts on this mailing list the way to do it is to build gambit
> with a c++ compiler. I have Visual Studio 2008. I tried adding the
> options
> -TP (compile as C++ code) and -EHsc (enable c++ exceptions) to
> misc/vc2008.bat but the code does not compile without modifications (there
> is some type casting from void* to non-void* which require explicit cast in
> c++).
>
> What is the proper way to build gambit using the Visual Studio 2008 c++
> compiler? On unix systems I can pass --enable-cplusplus option to
> configure. Can I setup mingw or cygwin to do the same on Windows? If so
> how do I do this?
>
> Also the windows binary distribution of Gambit 4.6.0 opens a new window
> when
> running "gsc -exe test.scm". Once the compile finishes the window is
> closed
> immediately making it hard to read the output. I notice when I compile
> gambit using vc2008.bat it does not open a new window. It would be better
> if the official binary distribution did this as well. I notice that for
> binaries that I build using gsc if I define _WINDOWS it opens a new console
> window. Maybe the official windows binary distribution compiles gsc with
> _WINDOWS defined?
>
> Thank you
>
> - Kartik
>
>
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