Hi Vladimir,
> On 13 Jul 2016, at 22:40, Vladimir Marek <vladimir.ma...@oracle.com> wrote:
> In order to play with perl I wanted to do a gui. I decided to try to
> bind qt libraries via nativecall[1]. Nativecall contains logic for g++
> or msvc which tries to guess mangled name. I found that it does not work
> that well for qt libraries. Especially on windows the actual symbols are
> far from nativecall guess. So I decided I'll compile the shim library
> exporting qt functionality into 'extern "C"' to make the symbols
> predictable. Sadly I can't force nativecall to not mangle symbols at
> all. I'm using the attached patch and in the perl itself
>
> class QString is repr<CPPStruct> is QObject {
> has Pointer $.vtable;
>
> my sub qt_QString(Str) returns QString is native('./p6', v1) is
> mangled(False) { * };
> ...
>
> Important is the 'is mangled(False)'.
>
> Could something like this be included into nativecall?
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/vlmarek/perl6-qt (beware, only proof of
> concept)
>
> Thank you
> --
> Vlad
> <perl6.diff>
Could you please turn this into a PR on https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo ?
That would make it easier for more people to look at and much easier to merge.
Thanks!
Liz
