Philip Semanchuk schrieb: > On Jun 5, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Thomas Heller wrote: > >> s...@pobox.com schrieb: >>>>> If there is no C++ compiler available then the proposed layout >>>>> sniffing just >>> wouldn't be done and either a configure error would be emitted or a >>> run-time >>> exception raised if a program attempted to use that feature. (Or the >>> sniffing could be explicitly enabled/disabled by a configure flag.) >>> >> >> Hm, on Linux, gccxml (if its version is compatible with that of the C >> ++ compiler) >> can probably help a lot. At runtime, no configure step needed. >> Unfortunately not on Windows. > > I'm not a gccxml user, but its install page has a section for Windows: > http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Install.html
Yes, it runs on Windows (*). However, there are two problems: 1. gccxml refuses to parse quite some include files from the Window SDK. That's probably not the fault of gccxml but MS using non-standard C++ constructs. (There is a workaround inside gccxml: it installs patched Windows header files, but the patches must be created first by someone) 2. You cannot expect gccxml (which is mostly GCC inside) to use the MSVC algorithm for C++ object layout, so unfortuately it does not help in the most important use-case. Thomas (*) And there is even use for it on Windows to parse C header files and generate ctypes wrappers, in the ctypeslib project. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
