On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear all, > > I am trying to create a new type in vala, > like "typedef" in C. > > http://live.gnome.org/Vala/**Tutorial<http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial>has > this example: > /* defining an alias for a basic type (equivalent to typedef int Integer > in C)*/ > [SimpleType] > public struct Integer : uint {} > > However, it does not seem to work... > > I have created the following file called i.vala: > <code> > [SimpleType] > public struct Integer : uint { > } > public static int main (string[] args) {return 0;} > </code> > > Compiling with valac i.vala gives: > /home/henrik/v1/i.c: In function ‘integer_get_type’: > /home/henrik/v1/i.c:22:79: error: ‘integer_dup’ undeclared (first use in > this function) > /home/henrik/v1/i.c:22:79: note: each undeclared identifier is reported > only once for each function it appears in > /home/henrik/v1/i.c:22:109: error: ‘integer_free’ undeclared (first use in > this function) > > This is running on Linux Mint 12 (like Ubuntu Oneiric) > Vala 0.14.0 > gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1 > > I tried also using latest version of vala from git: > Vala 0.15.0.72-516e7 > with the same result. > > valac --save-temps shows only this in i.c: > <snip> > GType integer_get_type (void) { > static volatile gsize integer_type_id__volatile = 0; > if (g_once_init_enter (&integer_type_id__volatile)) { > GType integer_type_id; > integer_type_id = g_boxed_type_register_static ("int32_t", > (GBoxedCopyFunc) integer_dup, (GBoxedFreeFunc) integer_free); > g_once_init_leave (&integer_type_id__volatile, integer_type_id); > } > return integer_type_id__volatile; > } > </snip> > So it is obvious that the C compiler barfs, > integer_dup and integer_free are never defined. > > > Any help on what I am doing wrong here would be most appreciated! > > /Henrik > ______________________________**_________________ > vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/vala-list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list> > Doesn't seem that you're doing anything wrong. Vala isn't generating the normal dup and free functions for your simple type struct. I'm going to check bugzilla if there's a bug about it. This should be removed from the tutorial considering it doesn't work.
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