How xbig deals with c++ macro ?

[soaringfr]

hi, i'm currently evaluate xbig to make a tool for auto binding openscenegraph engine (maybe a next sourceforge project !).

but after running xbig tests project successfully, i fall in error on openscenegraph binding generation in one way.

some headers files used c++ macro in order to no rewrite declaration in several headers.

this a simple of macro :
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#define META_StateAttribute(library,name,type) \         virtual osg::Object* cloneType() const { return new name(); } \         virtual osg::Object* clone(const osg::CopyOp& copyop) const { return new name (*this,copyop); } \         virtual bool isSameKindAs(const osg::Object* obj) const { return dynamic_cast<const name *>(obj)!=NULL; } \         virtual const char* libraryName() const { return #library; } \         virtual const char* className() const { return #name; } \         virtual Type getType() const { return type; }

this is the xbig code generated :
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/** **/
    public META_StateAttribute(org.xbig.osg a1, org.xbig.osg.IAlphaFunc a2, org.xbig.osg.StateAttribute.Type a3);

where "org.xbig.osg" is the namespace

can you tell me how xbig deal with c++ macro cause i gess java code failed because of c++ macro are not strongly typed....

if you can drive me in the right way...

cheers

[Christoph Nenning]

Hi,

we use doxygen as C++ parser and I guess the problem lies there.

A short overview how XBiG works:

- let doxygen parse C++ headers and generate xml output
- use "combine.xslt" generated by doxygen to combine all the xml files into one big file (all.xml)
- transform all.xml into our own API description (meta.xml)
- generate java and c++ code from meta.xml

I would suggest to look what is in meta.xml. Instead of one function called "META_StateAttribute" there should be six functions:
- cloneType
- clone
- ...

You may want to create a simple header first (which reproduces this case) to deal with a smaller meta.xml file.

If there is only one function in meta.xml you can try tweaking the doxygen config. That is located in:
xbig/src/doxygen/xml.doxygen