From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Message-ID: <5BF60CD649EDD411A04600B0D049F53AFFA97C@hydmail02.hyd.wilco-int.com>
Subject: RE: Curses in DJGPP
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:22:21 +0530 
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Hi Eli,

Thanks for the suggestion. But it looks like it doesn't solve the problem
completely.

> Did you mean PDcurses?

Yes.

> C++ has its own data type names `bool'.  I guess this line in
> curses.h 
> should be under "#ifndef __cplusplus" or something.

I did that and the program compiled fine. But there are still some strange
problems. If I try compiling the same program with <vector> included, I get
errors like this.

#include <curses.h>
#include <vector>

int main ()
{
  return 0;
}

D:\PRJ>gpp -c test.cc
In file included from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/iostream.h:31,
                 from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stlalgobase.h:53,
                 from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/vector:30,
                 from test.cc:2:
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/streambuf.h:210: arguments given to macro `clear'
In file included from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stlalgobase.h:53,
                 from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/vector:30,
                 from test.cc:2:
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/iostream.h:187: arguments given to macro `clear'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/iostream.h:190: arguments given to macro `clear'
In file included from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/vector:34,
                 from test.cc:2:
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_vector.h:392: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_vector.h:399: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_vector.h:408: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_vector.h:413: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_vector.h:540: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_vector.h:552: arguments given to macro `erase'
In file included from d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/vector:35,
                 from test.cc:2:
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:613: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:641: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:652: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:783: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:789: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:795: arguments given to macro `erase'
d:/djgpp/lang/cxx/stl_bvector.h:799: arguments given to macro `erase'


I think I figured out the problem....

curses.h defines a macro by name clear. There is a method called clear in
class ios in strambuf so there's a conflict.

I could put #include <vector> before include curses and that works fine. But
it doesn't sound like a good thing to do. What if I wanted to use the
clear() method of ios? I'll probably compare the curses.h in GNU/Linux and
the one in PDCurses. Lets see...

I guess I'll look into this and see if I can find a solution. In the
meantime if someone has some kind of fix for this, I'd appreciate if you
could send it.

Thanks,
Prashant


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