[Opencxx-users] Porting OpenCXX

[Thomas E. <te-...@en...>]

Hi,

I currently wanted to evaluate OpenCXX for generation of language 
bindings of crufty old C code into some reflectable languages on 
MacOS X.

The 2.8 distribution has a bunch of problems:

- with the normal automake / autoconf / make chain there is a problem 
that in most of the makefiles libtool is invoked, not something 
configurable (glibtool on OS X) or the local libtool 
($OPENCXX/libtool).

- compiled, one of the samples (IIRC verbose2) produces an coredump. 
The problem is the sample tries to write to cout at static 
initialisation time. The init order is _not_ guaranteed by the ANSI 
Standard - while it is desirable std::cout is usuable all the time, 
the only thing that is guaranteed is it is usuable when program 
execution reaches the first line of main();

- With an more rigid ANSI compliant standard library implementation 
(Metrowerks Codewarrior) there are compile errors due to missing 
namespace using clauses in a whole bunch of files

ChangedMemberList.cc -> using std::memmove

Error   : undefined identifier 'strlen'
auxil.cc line 28       int len = strlen(src);

Error   : undefined identifier 'strcpy'
auxil.cc line 30       return strcpy(result, src);

etc...

Regards,
	Tom_E