Paul Burba wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu> wrote: > >> I can at least explain the last bit -- MSC doesn't generate object files >> when also generating preprocessed source. I've always been frustrated by >> that. >> > > Thanks for that bit of info! It's quite comical as the output states > that it *is* compiling, when it clearly is not. >
Never trust IDEs. "compiing" in IDE-speak usually means "invoking the compiler" which is not quite the same. :) >> Which implicitly explains why config_win.c now "compiles" -- it doesn't >> compile, it's just preprocessed, and the preprocessor doesn't worry >> about seeing tokens it can't understand. >> >> But really -- the /correct/ answer is to include apr.h (or svn_config.h) >> from svn_debug.h, if you want to use the __attribute__ macro in that >> header. Headers should always explicitly include their dependencies. >> > > Which gets us right back to my original problem: Including apr.h in > svn_debug.h causes those cryptic errors. Ugh. :-( > I went back to look at them ... and they're not all that cryptic. Clearly some types are not defined, it looks like a conflict between some defines (e.g., WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN or_WIN32_WINNT) and the order of includes. Not having a Windows dev box handy, I can't dig any deeper. -- Brane
