A quick status update on this effort: - I forked the source at GitHub under the protobuf-cppbuilder<https://github.com/saadware/protobuf-cppbuilder>project. - The biggest overarching changes revolved around namespaces. These changes were minimal but touched many files. - Main cause of this change was a "using namespace std;" statement in common.h. I removed this but then had to fully qualify std types when there were used (i.e. string became std::string). - C++Builder sometimes had problems resolving namespaces. For example if we were in google::protobuf and something was referenced in google::protobuf::internal, I had to qualify that by adding internal:: to whatever was being referenced. - Other changes revolved around #ifdef/#ifndef certain includes, etc. (similar to MSVC). - A very interesting compiler complaint that took me a while to track down was how dependent names were being sometimes used/declared. When they referred to types and templates I had to disambiguate<http://womble.decadent.org.uk/c++/template-faq.html#disambiguation>. This cleaned things up and made the source cleaning compile across all platforms. - *The libraries are compiling under C++Builder and can be linked against.* - *protoc is not fully working. *It compiles fine but gets a runtime error when parsing options. I'm not yet sure what's going on here. A workaround is to not use the protoc that gets compiled with this project, but use the distributed binary to generate the C++ protocol buffers. Hoping I can make some headway on this issue soon. - I've compiled all changes on both gcc and MSVC. *All unit tests are passing.*
In my opinion these changes would be great to have merged back into the protobuf proper branch as most of them aim to make the code base more cross compiler compliant. I suppose the C++Builder is a bit more strict on a few items. I would be happy to produce is diff/patch to be looked at by a main contributor on the google project. Please just let me know what I can do to help facilitate this. Thank you, Scott Saad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/protobuf/-/5L32fr5BM-QJ. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
