On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Aaron Laws dartm...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been doing some work on gnucash with relation to c++. I'm LMAT on
IRC. I got the project to compile, link, and run as c++ (no .c files I'm
pretty sure). I think it doesn't load any backends, and there are other
problems. I had to solve a problem with the module loading because c++
mangles names (if you don't know what this is, it's much better than it
sounds!). I added extern C to those entry points so that they could be
found (in their unmangled form). I'm assuming the backend loading is
similar, but having taken a look, I don't think it works in the same way.
https://github.com/limitedAtonement/gnucash/tree/c++-debug is my debug
tree. Don't count on it for anything, I may be doing force-pushing now
and then. Currently, this is the version that runs if you want to take a
look. (I think I'll put a tag here soon.)
https://github.com/limitedAtonement/gnucash/tree/c++-work is where I plan
on putting something that may e.g. actually be pullable into gnucash. For
instance, the first commits I plan to put here are updates to names to
remove c++ keywords, and changing c signatures to be c++ compatible (none
of this func (one, two) char one; char * two; {} stuff).
And, https://github.com/limitedAtonement/gnucash/tree/guidcpp is the boost
guid branch on which I currently have issued a pull request.
I've been learning a lot about the code base by doing this work, and I'm
sure it would be *much* faster if I knew more about how certain things were
configured. Let me know what you think if you get a chance to take a look
around!
Aaron,
I've pulled and begun testing your guidcpp branch. It looks good, and I expect
to merge it to master today or Thursday.
What is the motivation for compiling everything as C++ if it's still really C
and you have to wrap everything in extern C {} to get it to link, especially
in gnome and register directories, which can't be converted to C++?
Regards,
John Ralls
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