I'm starting to work on building xerces under MacOS with Metrowerks Codewarrior.
The MacOS limits filenames to 32 characters. The pathname delimiter on the Mac HFS filesystem is the colon ":" rather than the unix / or DOS backslash \ . Xerces is full of #include lines that include the directory name, with the Unix / delimiter. Generally compilers on other systems have the option to translate this (although not always - it's definitely a nonportable construct). I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but having a long #include line with a directory name causes compilation to fail on the Mac. Simply removing the directory name will make it work. The one that causes particular trouble is: #include <util/ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.hpp> removing the "util/" makes it work OK. With Metrowerks on the Mac, you can have the compiler search a directory and all subdirectories, so once the directory name is removed everything is OK. With Metrowerks on Windows, you have to explicitly set each directory that gets searched during a compile (subdirectories aren't included), so setting up the Windows project is pretty tedious. I'm not sure what to do about this in such a way that I can fix this without breaking the build on other platforms. I would prefer directory names were not used at all in #include lines, but that would take a lot of work for everyone to implement. Probably shortening the length of the name of ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.hpp would be the best thing to do. Mike Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.
