On 2 May 2013 10:40, Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sean Conner [mailto:s...@conman.org] >> Sent: donderdag 2 mei 2013 2:32 >> To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] The use of C 99 in Luarocks >> >> It was thus said that the Great Hisham once stated: >> > On 1 May 2013 19:23, Philipp Janda <siffie...@gmx.net> wrote: >> > > Btw., I believe compiler support for C99 should be some form of >> > > (external?) dependency (maybe like the magic "lua" in the dependencies >> > > table), so that Visual C++ users get a more informative error message >> > > why some module wouldn't build for them. >> > > >> > > dependencies = { >> > > "lua ~> 5.1", >> > > "c >= 99", --> maybe like this? one could even do >> > > -- "c == gnu99" --> for compiler specific modules, but IMHO >> > > this is going too far ... >> > > } >> > > >> > > An alternative (or maybe an additional feature) would be some form of >> > > compiler overrides like the current platform overrides, but I think a >> > > clear message what went wrong is more difficult in this case. >> > >> > Those are interesting ideas. Specifying the language variant in a >> > high-level/compiler-independent would be best, but some sort of >> > compiler overrides could be useful too. We kinda do that already by >> > having "mingw32" as a platform type... >> >> I like the idea of " c >= 99" since it parallels the Lua dependency, and >> can be used to change the compiler options. > > Would LR be able to check the dependency? Or would it just fail if it wasn't > satisfied?
I suppose we'd just assume based on platform. That is, when using GCC (unix, mingw32) we have C99; when using MSVC, we don't. Hate the fact that "11 > 99" though!... -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
