On Wednesday 14 December 2011 20:55:44 anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Hugo Parente Lima
> <hugo.l...@openbossa.org
> 
> > wrote:
> > > > You also need to care care of putting all your includes inside a
> > 
> > "extern
> > 
> > > > C",
> > > > because shiboken generates C++ code.
> > > 
> > > Could you, please, expand this a bit? Do I need to do this in avbin.h
> > 
> > file,
> > 
> > > or in generated .cpp/.h files?
> > 
> > When linking C code using a C++ compiler you must tell the C++ compiler
> > that
> > the function is a C function, not a C++ function, you do this putting the
> > function declaration inside a block like:
> > 
> > extern "C" {
> > }
> > 
> > Some C libraries already do that in their headers, but if your library
> > doesn't
> > do that you need to find a way to have all your C includes inside a
> > extern "C"
> > block.
> 
> I've wrapped code inside avbin.h into extern "C" block following the
> excellent explanation from
> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html but it still
> doesn't help.
> 
> The problem is that Shiboken was meant to be used to wrap C++ code, not C,
> 
> > so
> > the code generator doesn't write the "extern C" before including the
> > library
> > headers and you need to find a way to do that. Thinking a bit I don't
> > know if
> > there's a clean way to do that with the current version of Shiboken.
> 
> Do you mean that if I execute `shiboken lib/AVbin/include/avbin.h
> typesystem.xml` shiboken can not detect if avbin.h is C or C++ header?

Yes, nobody can, even a human being.
 
> > > > For example, I want to create binding for avbin_get_version()
> > > > function
> > > > 
> > > > > available from
> > > > > https://github.com/AVbin/AVbin/blob/master/include/avbin.h
> > > > > 
> > > > > I do:
> > > > > $ shiboken lib/AVbin/include/avbin.h typesystem.xml
> > > > > 
> > > > > Where typesystem.xml is the following:
> > > > > 
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > > > 
> > > > > <!-- the name of the module as it will be imported from Python-->
> > > > > <typesystem package='AVbin'>
> > > > > 
> > > > >   <function signature='int avbin_get_version()' rename='version'/>
> > > > > 
> > > > > </typesystem>
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > First of all it always complains about "No C++ classes found!"
> > > > 
> > > > You can ignore this message.
> > > > 
> > > > > Then I see the message:
> > > > > Global function 'int avbin_get_version()' is specified in
> > > > > typesystem, but not defined. This could potentially lead to
> > > > > compilation errors.
> > > > > 
> > > > >  If I modify the <function> with signature='avbin_get_version()' I
> > 
> > get
> > 
> > > > > another error:
> > > > > skipping function '::avbin_get_version', unmatched return type
> > > > > 'int'
> > > > 
> > > > Probably this function wasn't found in your global header, the header
> > > > file read by shiboken to find what classes/function can be bound,
> > > > look at the log
> > > > files generated by the generator.
> > > 
> > > They are empty. 1032 bytes each.
> > > Console output: http://pastebin.com/fU7rzmXi
> > > Generated files:
> > > - out/AVbin/avbin_module_wrapper.cpp - http://pastebin.com/GUkTiksN
> > > - out/AVbin/avbin_python.h - http://pastebin.com/KmGDW8xi
> > 
> > No, I meant the log files created by the generator, something like
> > mjb_rejected_functions.log, the log must explain why the functions were
> > rejected.
> 
> All logs look the same: http://paste.kde.org/159104/
> I've specified --debug-level=full but it added only one line to console
> output that doesn't explain anything:
> DEBUG :: Parsed: 'typesystem.xml', 2 new entries
> 
> > I've uploaded the project to:
> > > https://bitbucket.org/techtonik/shiboken-avbin

-- 
Hugo Parente Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

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