Re: Are there differences in public header files on different platforms?

[<sr...@jt...>]

Zartaj,
    That's a good question, and in fact some people using ICU do use it 
this way.  I suggest to replace platform.h  with a tree of IFDEFs and  
"#include  my_solaris_platform.h" , for example.

  The problem is that different users define a 'platform' differently.   
If at compile time, everything could be determined automatically, there 
would be no need for configure.  But you would end up needing a #define 
to tell you which platform-specific subdirectory to look in.  (as I see 
it).

   platform.h is the only file which changes. (or, pwin32.h  on windows, 
etc.)

   So it's a good suggestion, I'm just not sure how to implement it.  
Any ideas welcome.

Regards,
  Steven

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 05:15 PM, Zartaj T. Majeed wrote:
> Is it true that if ICU is built with the same configure options
> on different platforms all public header files will be the same
> except for platform.h?
> If so, why not install platform.h in a platform-specific subdirectory
> of the include directory. Then a single include directory can be
> used for cross-platform development.