[Scribia-dev] Compiling Scribia

[Charles L. <da...@sy...>]

well, since i'm a registered developer and i now have CVS access, it seems
i no longer have an excuse to not contribute. can't goof off playing CL all
night any more. oh well. :)

i tried compiling Scribia with CW Pro 6.1 today. no luck. MoreFiles doesn't
compile. i grabbed the latest (and only) version i found on the apple
website, which is 1.5.1. the README mentions 1.5.0 but i can't find it on
the site.

anyway the problems seem to be related to how UPP are defined in the UH...
Geotzou told me that he had a similar problem on another project, so it
might be related to a conflict between the UH provided with Pro 6.1 (UH
3.3.2) and the latest MoreFiles package (1.5.1).

i can't find a newer UH package on the developer page on Apple's website
but i'm pretty sure i heard about more recent ones. anyway, lark, do you
think you could send me your MoreFiles 1.5.0 package via e-mail? i'll try
to test it with that version and see if it builds... if it does, then we're
going to get into trouble when people are going to try and build with
1.5.1, and i'll try to find a way around the bug (i already have a bit of
an idea but i'd like to test with lark's version first).

btw i have a couple of suggestions for the project layout in general:

1. you might want to get rid of the pascal files in the MoreFiles package.
you might also want to ditch the MoreFiles ReadMe file (like i always do, i
had deleted that ReadMe file and got a compiler error :)

2. the warnings in the precompiled headers are pretty annoying. however,
there's an easy way to get rid of them and still keep the warning for the
rest of the project. simply put the #pragma warning_foo after the #includes
for the headers, like this:

...

// Include MSL headers.
#include <MSLHeaders++.cp>

// Bring in PP headers.
#include <PP_ClassHeaders.cp>

// All your warnings are belong to us now.
#pragma warn_no_side_effect on
#pragma warn_resultnotused on
#pragma opt_strength_reduction_strict on

that's it for tonight, when i get the 1.5.0 MoreFiles package i'll explore
a bit further.


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