[Wxlua-users] wxModule fails to run in MSVC 2005 Express

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

The library wxbindstc has a wxModule in it and unfortunately the
OnInit() function is not run. I suspect that the linker is throwing
away the whole library since it's "not used".

Just to refresh, each binding has a wxModule that adds itself to a
list of bindings in wxLuaBinding. See the bottom of
wxbind/src/wx_classes.cpp and wxbindstc/src/wxstc_classes.cpp.

The only solution that seems to work is to add a C function that
explicitly adds the binding. This requires that in everybody's
wxApp::OnInit or at least before the first use of wxLua they call each
C binding function to initialize it. Any problems with getting rid of
the wxModule way and adding the C functions to put this initialization
problem behind us?

There is one catch, it's hard to #include "wxbind/include/wxbind.h"
since it #includes "wxluasetup.h" so you have to add the path to that
as well, even though you don't really need it. A simple way around
that is to use extern, is this too "unprofessional?"

extern void wxLuaBindingInit_wx();
extern void wxLuaBindingInit_wxstc();

MyApp::OnInit()
{
    wxLuaBindingInit_wx();
    wxLuaBindingInit_wxstc();
    ...
}

Regards,
    John Labenski