Ron:
You RULE! It worked!
Time for me to release this unto the world, since no one else
seems to have done so.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! The credits will say "Ron Goldman of
Stanford provided the critical fix I needed to get this thing compiled.
The GNU project provided GCC, and Apple ported it to the Macintosh. All I
did was do the monkey-work..."
--Jessica
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Ron Goldman wrote:
> When you compile rfbproto.c it includes the hextile.c file 3 times,
> each time with the macro BPP defined differently (BPP = 8, 16 or 32).
> hextile.c then defines a macro GET_PIXEL so that it expands as
> GET_PIXEL8, GET_PIXEL16 or GET_PIXEL32, which is normally finally
> expanded with the values defined in rfbproto.c.
>
> On the Mac for some reason that last expansion is not happening, so I
> am suggesting manually expanding the GET_PIXEL macro in hextile.c the
> one place that it is used. Since you need to do this for all three BPP
> values you need to create 3 versions of hextile.c.
>
> If you look at rfbproto.c you'll see the 3 places it includes
> hextile.c: change those.
> In hextile.c, search for the sole "call" to GET_PIXEL in the code and
> change that.
>
> So in hextile8.c you'll have " ... for (i = 0; i < nSubrects; i++) {
> GETPIXEL8(fg,ptr); ..."
>
> Hope that makes it clear enough.
>
> -- Ron --
>
>
> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Jessica Blank wrote:
>
> > Hi there! Finally, a real response. OK, pardon my ignorance, but I am
> > not
> > familiar with the issues surrounding preprocessor macros. I do not see
> > exactly what you are asking me to do? Replace the macros with ... what?
> >
> > I was thinking earlier that if there was a way I could simply
> > reimplement
> > GET_PIXEL8, etc. as FUNCTONS rather than macros...
> >
> > Could you clarify a bit? What exactly would forking off three versions
> > of
> > hextile.c do?
> >
> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Ron Goldman wrote:
> >
> >> Try compiling rfbproto.c with the -E switch to view just the output
> >> from the preprocessor. Since GET_PIXEL8, etc. are macros if you see
> >> them in the output file then the problem is that the preprocessor is
> >> not expanding them correctly for some reason.
> >>
> >> A very crude hack in that case is to just make 3 copies of the file
> >> hextile.c (hextile8.c, hextile16.c & hextile32.c) and edit them so
> >> that
> >> the call to GET_PIXEL is GET_PIXEL8, 16 or 32. Then edit rfbproto.c so
> >> the 3 includes of hextile.c use the modified files.
> >>
> >> Good luck.
> >>
> >> -- Ron --
> >>
> >> p.s. personally I use tightvnc and find that the Java applet turned
> >> into a Mac OS X app is plenty fast enough, though it does take a while
> >> to start up.
> >>
> >
> > J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k
> >
>
J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k
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