[Ace-users] [ace-users] compiling ACE on linux with wchar

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Martin,

>I've digged deep inside the dirent configurations and found the
>problem:
>
>There's a test code for directory parsing functionality in
>%ACE_wrappers%/test/Dirent_Test.cpp. In this test the member "d_name"
>of the structure "dirent" (#define ACE_DIRENT dirent) is used for
>several times. This structure comes from unix systems and is mapped
>directly on those systems. On windows systems it is defined in
>%ACE_wrappers%/ace/os_include/os_dirent.h because windows doesn't have
>a structure like this. The difference is that unix systems always use
>char arrays for d_name, windows systems use ACE_TCHAR now (because of
>self defined structure). This means that unicode builds on windows
>(ACE_USES_WCHAR) have wchar_t arrays for the d_name. At each place in
>our productive code (Linux/Windows) we have to differenciate d_name
>type now.
>
>In the ACE unit tests there is no problem because d_name is always
>used in overloaded functions for char and wchar_t. Except the lines
>207-213: There you have to use an #ifdef as workaround.

Thanks for the analysis - that's very helpful.

>I know about the problem but don't feel capable to solve it in ACE.
>
>Can you please help me?

Unfortunately, we (i.e., the DOC group at ISIS) don't have time to
look into this.  I recommend that you file this issue in bugzilla
<deuce.doc.wustl.edu/bugzilla> so it doesn't get lost.  If you need
more "predictable" help or need help for earlier versions of
ACE+TAO+CIAO please see

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/commercial-support.html

for a list of companies that will provide you with ACE+TAO+CIAO
commercial support.

Thanks very much,

        Doug
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