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ssolie
26-Oct-2010
[481]
bah :-p
Andreas
26-Oct-2010
[482x2]
agreed :)
(note that my git mirror does not contain A109 because it wasn't 
really released officially, and I wanted to wait if Carl wants to 
hotfix the compile issue.)
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[484x2]
Why is there a BOOL and a REBOOL ?
Amiga defines BOOL which is conflicting with R3's BOOL
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[486]
are they using the same typedef?
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[487x2]
no, Amiga typedefs to short while REBOL #defines to int
seems strange to have 2 bool types in REBOL ?
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[489x2]
REBOOL is more compact for smaller structs.
strange that its trippping you though since its within an #ifndef

#ifndef BOOL
typedef int BOOL;       // (int is used for speed in modern CPUs)
#endif
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[491x3]
the precompiler knows nothing of typedefs so when Amiga typedefs 
BOOL it skips the #ifndef check
I may have to keep the rebol and amiga stuff completely seperated
(different files)
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[494]
I'd just rename the rebol BOOL to some other Identifier,and do a 
quick recursive file replace... I looked and its not used that much.
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[495]
not good for common host-kit later though..
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[496x2]
then give a note to carl so that it gets changed in the next host-kit. 
  cause I don't find it a good practice anyways.  strangely, I was 
wondering if BOOL would cause compiler hickups a few weeks ago.
guess I was right ;-)
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[498x2]
maybe REBOL should just use the C99 _Bool type instead which is optimized 
for each platform
instead of assuming int is best
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[500]
MSVC doesn't support C99.  :-(     though maybe _Bool is defined 
anyways.
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[501]
lol... silly microsoft..  for windows we can just typedef _Bool until 
they catch up?
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[502x2]
thing is I see that BOOL is used in the host-kit as return values, 
so expecting the same dll to be compatible with different compilers 
might be dangerous.
since we aren't compiling the core ourself.  it might be using some 
different typedef.
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[504]
this is why ISO standarized things over 10 years ago.. ;-)
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[505x2]
hehe
standards?  programmers?  are you kidding?  ;-)
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[507x2]
I can work around it for now but I would recommend the ISO approach 
myself (for types)
except the RE* types of course which are special
Maxim
27-Oct-2010
[509]
I agree, if it can be guaranteed that it won't break between MSVC 
and GCC.
ssolie
27-Oct-2010
[510x2]
we can supply a stdbool.h and stdint.h for the MSVC users if need 
be.. until MS catches up
anyway, just a thought
ssolie
28-Oct-2010
[512]
Is there a version of the host-kit that works with AGG without Windows?
Maxim
28-Oct-2010
[513x2]
in theory you can use to-image! on a gob!   but I'm not sure its 
been fixed in latest hostkits and not sure that really answers your 
question either ;-)
by windows do you mean on another platform than MS Windows?
ssolie
28-Oct-2010
[515x3]
yes
the windows code is filled with truetype font stuff for example
I would need to use freetype
Maxim
28-Oct-2010
[518]
nope.  you are the brave soul we where all waiting for  ;-)
ssolie
28-Oct-2010
[519x2]
so bet it :)
be even
Cyphre
28-Oct-2010
[521]
ssolie: the only file that needs to be reformatted so it supports 
other platforms than windows is agg_truetype_text.cpp + .h

Otherwise there is already available FreeType wrapper so the rest 
of code can work  even on OS4

But the current hostkit code needs some more work to extract the 
font/text rendering parts so they can be controlled by defs.

If you don't want to waste time on this I can have a look at it over 
the weekend and make the changes so you should be able compile without 
the text code for now. Just let me know.
ssolie
28-Oct-2010
[522x2]
Cyphre, that would be great if you could make the necessary changes. 
I have simply commented out text support for the time being so I 
can continue to work on other areas.
FYI - I filed some bug reports for the host-kit for the more annoying 
problems I've hit. Feel free to add comments to the reports.
Maxim
28-Oct-2010
[524]
saw them all good ideas
Carl
28-Oct-2010
[525x4]
scanning: reading back a few pages...
looks like Steve got his questions answered
we can probably find some way to handle BOOL via the reb-config.h
If C code line terminators are effecting your tools, I suggest you 
get better tools.
Maxim
28-Oct-2010
[529]
btw, I released a new host-kit which has custom gob rendering enabled 
(very early prototype) but its got an OpenGL rendering engine running 
within view.


you can see the download link in the announce group, if you want 
to try it out.
Carl
28-Oct-2010
[530]
Andreas: the code base is a mix of both single source and multi-source 
tree.


I will not allow source files to become unreadable with every other 
line being #ifdef for a different OS. Those are not maintainable.