On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Benjamin Schindler wrote:
> > Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Benjamin Schindler wrote:
> >>> I'm working on a project which builds both on linux and windows. I
> >>> generated
> >>> an eclipse project out of it which works basically fine but it's not
> >>> able to
> >>> recognize i.e. the __GNUC__ macro (and probably any other macro defined
> >>> per
> >>> default on gcc) are not recognized by eclipse. That means that by using
> >>> a header like:
> >>>
> >>> #if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1300)
> >>> #ifdef FLOW_DLL_EXPORT
> >>> #define FLOW_DLL _declspec(dllexport)
> >>> #else
> >>> #define FLOW_DLL _declspec(dllimport)
> >>> #endif
> >>> #else
> >>> #ifdef __GNUC__
> >>> #define FLOW_DLL
> >>> #endif
> >>> #endif
> >>>
> >>> and then declaring a class like:
> >>>
> >>> class FLOW_DLL something { .... };
> >>> will fool eclipse's parser. When I remove the #ifdef __GNUC__, it
> >>> works. Is
> >>> this an issue in the eclipse generator or in the eclipse parser?
>
> [...]
>
> > Well, you are right about the greyed out area which is in short what I
> > ment (The project builds just fine). I would not mind this in any way,
> > but the issue is that classes utilizing that FLOW_DLL macro will be
> > marked with Syntax error (because that symbol is then not defined) and
> > thus, code completion is not available at all for these classes hich is a
> > big usability issue here
>
> Yes, I'm well aware that this is a big usability problem... just
> wanted to verify the source of the problem.
>
> Ok, maybe you can work around this by adding a snippet such as:
>
> if (UNIX) # or if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUC)
> add_definitions(__GNUC__)
> # actually, I would use a different variable here and change the code
> above endif
>
> Then the variable should be added to the project files. Please let me
> know if this works.
We already query gcc for the system include dirs, do we also need to query it
for the builtin macros and put that information somewhere ?
Alex
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