Re: [pygccxml-development] size_t problem

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Thomas Rab <tho...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm currently trying to wrap a header and I had a problem whenever it uses
> the size_t type. It's currently reading it as a variable as it doesn't
> understand that it's a type. I know this is usually something that the
> compiler (Microsoft's C++ compiler) knows. I located a header with what I
> thought was the definition, but it still wouldn't compile. I believe cstddef
> was the header the definition was in. Here is the line, if this helps any:
>
> typedef void (*NewtonSerialize) (void* serializeHandle, const void* buffer,
> size_t size);
>
> and here is the error I get:
>
> Error occured while running GCC-XML: C:/Program
> Files/NewtonSDK/sdk/Newton.h:89: error: type specifier omitted for parameter
> `size_t'
>
> Which from my understanding means it doesn't understand it's a type (as it's
> not specified), so it thinks it's a parameter, with no type specified.
> Note this is my first time wrapping a header that is not mine, so I don't
> really know all the gotchas or much about py++ yet (or even boost.python for
> that matter). Any help would be appreciated :) -Tom

This is exactly what happen to me. I added include to stddef.h file
and now code compiles fine.

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