Re: [Swig-user] "Container" headers in enums

[David P. <dpi...@me...>]

> In the C++ project I'm wrapping, there are used "container" headers, that
> contain a list of values wrapped in a macro, like this:
> 
> // values.h container file
> LIST_VALUE_DEF( value1, "string value1") LIST_VALUE_DEF( value2, "string
> value2")
> 
> Then the header is used to generate similar declarations/definitions in C++
> code, like this:
> 
> #define LIST_VALUE_DEF(ARG1, ARG2) int ARG1 (); class A {
> public:
>   %include "values.h"
> };
> 
> This will generate class A with members value1() and value2() as expected.
> 
> But when I try to use the same include to generate enum, SWIG says:
> "Error: Syntax error in input(3)."
> On the constructions like this:
> 
> #define LIST_VALUE_DEF(ARG1, ARG2)  ARG1,
>   enum E
>   {
>     %include "values.h"   // <-- error is generated on this line
>     eDummyLastValue
>   };

%include doesn't work the same way as #include. %include only scans a file once, and perhaps the parser can't handle %include inside an enum.