halyavin
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I am trying to compile drod using MinGW (gcc for windows platform). But I have to remove all brackets around symbols in unicode string constants, because gcc in MinGW doesn't support them (see also). Are this brackets absolutely necessary?

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[Last edited by halyavin at 01-15-2008 09:48 AM]

JDAdams
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If you look in the thread just below this one you will see a guide to compiling in Dev-Cpp which notes the bracket issue. Suffice to say that yes, you need to remove the internal ones, e.g. { {E},{x},{a},{m},{p},{l},{e},{0} } becomes { E,x,a,m,p,l,e,0 }

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You shouldn't remove those brackets, in stead you should replace {x} with We(x) for array initializers and W_t(x) otherwise. Some of these had been overlooked before, but I went through the code and fixed all of them some time ago (for a mingw port, actually). I don't think that's publicly available yet though.

WCHAR array[] = { {'f'},{'u'},{'n'},{0} };  →  WCHAR array[] = { We('f'),We('u'),We('n'),We(0) };
array[0] = {'r'};                           →  array[0] = W_t('r');

But anyway, yes, they are unfortunately a necessary evil. Some compilers abort if the brackets are there, other compilers abort if they're not there. gcc does both, depending on version/platform. If there was a portable way of specifying 16-bit wchar strings directly we wouldn't have to mess with all that stuff, but there isn't, so. (I'm aware of gcc's -fshort-wchar option, but that changes the ABI, so we can't use it.)

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[Last edited by trick at 01-15-2008 03:57 PM]

halyavin
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File: BracketsRemover.jar (5.8 KB)
Downloaded 42 times.
License: Public Domain

I write a Java program to transform all unicode string definitions to We() form. If you copy it to directory with DROD's source, you just need write "java -jar BracketsRemover.jar . h cpp" in command line. Where "." is directory with sources, and "h cpp" is allowed file extensions. This program misses a couple of cases where an array of unicode string defined. These cases should be fixed manually .
PS Sources are embedded in .jar.
PSPS You need at least Java 1.5 to run the program.

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[Last edited by halyavin at 01-17-2008 04:51 PM]