Re: [Mesa3d-dev] vgCreateFont

[Chia-I Wu <ol...@gm...>]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Chia-I Wu <ol...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:39 AM, José Fonseca <jfo...@vm...> wrote:
>> Hi Olv,
>>
>> Vega state tracker started failing to build on windows when I enabled
>> Win32 threads everywhere. The problem is that windows.h defines
>> CreateFont as CreateFontA.
>>
>> I looked at the code, but it was very hard to understand how to tackle
>> this, due to the mixture of both C-preprocessor and Python scripted code
>> generation makes things very obfuscated.
>>
>> Some ideas for the future:
>>
>> - The point of APIs like OpenVG having unique prefixes like "vg" is to
>> prevent this sort of name collision, but these macros which concatenate
>> the prefix/suffix end up defeating it.
>>
>> - Also given that we're using code generation, I think it would be
>> better if we just generate everything from the python script without the
>> c-preprocessor magic.
>> Anyway, pretty nice seeing the VG state tracker getting love!
> I overlooked this issue while working on the dispatcher.  I will make
> a switch to python scripts (or maybe simply use glapi).
This should be fixed by 8f2a974cf2c9.  The python script is rewritten
to generate real C code.

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