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Cyberax:
I've finally managed to compile C::B using VC 2003 Toolkit (actually, I used VisualStudio 2003) in Unicode. Now it can be debugged using a superb VisualStudio debugger :)

During this process I've fixed numerous incompatibilities. Here are the major ones:

* 1. VC's preprocessor doesn't support variable number of parameters in macroses. So I had to correct CFG_READ and CFG_WRITE.
* 2. VC's preprocessor doesn't understand such constructs:
--- Code: ---SomeFunc(_("Text, text, text"
                   "text continues"
                   "end of text"));

--- End code ---
It rewrote all such occurrences to:

--- Code: ---SomeFunc(_("Text, text, text"
                   _T("text continues")
                   _T("end of text")));

--- End code ---

[li]3. I've added correct class exports, so SDK can now be built as a DLL with VC.[/li]
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You can download patched codeblocks from: http://scb.udsu.ru/~cyberax/codeblocks_vc.zip

mandrav:
Thanks for the effort.
Where's that patch again? ;)

grv575:
For #2, are you sure they are equivalent?

Also, you sure


--- Code: ---SomeFunc(_("Text, text, text" \
                   "text continues" \
                   "end of text"));

--- End code ---

doesn't work?

sanjivg:
Also it would be good if you could come up with some write up to build c::b using Visual Studio.
I am also facing problems while debugging c::b using gdb on windows. i am not able to debug plugins, even after following the suggested method of putting a breakpoint in ScanforPlugins and then by adding the symbol file.

Thanks
Sanjiv

Cyberax:

--- Quote from: grv575 on September 25, 2005, 08:45:19 pm ---For #2, are you sure they are equivalent?

--- End quote ---
Yes, I am sure.


--- Quote ---Also, you sure

--- Code: ---SomeFunc(_("Text, text, text" \
                   "text continues" \
                   "end of text"));

--- End code ---
doesn't work?

--- End quote ---

Yes. In Unicode mode '_("Text")' is exapanded to 'L"Text"', so this code will look like:

--- Quote ---SomeFunc(L"Text, text, text" \
                   "text continues" \
                   "end of text");

--- End quote ---
This is not a Standard-compliant code and VC7.1 will not compile it ("error C2308: concatenating mismatched wide strings").

Just for reference, ISO/IEC 14882:2003(E) 2.13.4.3:

--- Quote ---If a narrow string literal token is adjacent to a wide string literal token, the behavior is
undefined.

--- End quote ---

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