Re: Status of Inline::CPP on Activeperl 5.10/Visual C++ 6

... illegal pure syntax, must be '= 0'

I'm no Windows gal, but IIRC, the issue with VC++ 6 is that it doesn't accept initialisations like:

class X {
  static const int x = 99;
  // ...
};
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VC6 is just too old / not standards-compliant. The workaround would be (I think) to initialise static const members outside of the class

class X {
  static const int x;
  // ...
};

const int X::x = 99;
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Good luck :)

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Re^2: Status of Inline::CPP on Activeperl 5.10/Visual C++ 6 by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 16, 2009 at 14:30 UTC
Correct. `>cl /c test1.cpp Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for +80x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved. test1.cpp test1.cpp(2) : error C2258: illegal pure syntax, must be '= 0' test1.cpp(2) : error C2252: 'x' : pure specifier can only be specified + for functions >cl /c test2.cpp Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for +80x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved. test2.cpp >` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Status of Inline::CPP on Activeperl 5.10/Visual C++ 6 by mwah (Hermit) on Sep 16, 2009 at 14:04 UTC
Thank you for your response. In spite of not making the test suite, I gave it (Inline::CPP) a try. First Program, as described in the Examples compiled, but segfaulted the perl core on program return with: `Free to wrong pool 235e38 not b01f4.` [download] Another test, using an already compiled library and an include path for using the respective functions, like: `use strict; use warnings; use Inline 'CPP'; use Inline CPP => Config => INC => '/I C:\\some\\tools\\' => LIBS => '/libpath:"C:\\some\\tools\\bin"' => LIBS => 'important.lib' ; my $n = ask_important_lib('question'); print $n; __END__ __CPP__ #include "important.h" int ask_important_lib(char* question) { SOMECLASS var(question); if( var.errorstatus() ) { printf("we got an error %d on question %s!\n", var.errorstatus(), +question); return -1; } return 1; }` [download] The above wouldn't even start to compile, nmake (1.5) will complain: `... makefile(878) : fatal error U1083: target macro '$(OBJECT)' expands t +o nothing ...` [download] So I throwed the towel. This seems to be completely non-workable on anything non-trivial C++ problem. BTW: I tried similar w/Ruby's RubyInline on Ruby 1.9 - also w/Visual C++ 6. Almost the same result. Some trivial things work, but anything referencing external include files or libs won't work (at least with Visual C++ 6, the system the actual Ruby 1.9.1 binary for win32 is built). Thanks & regards mwa	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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