Re: wxEuphoria
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:31:34AM -0500, Matthew Lewis wrote:
>
>
> > From: jbrown1050 at hotpop.com [mailto:jbrown105 at speedymail.org]
>
> > Well, nm gets the list of names from an executable and prints
> > the names out,
> > along with the symbol's type and value. It has a demangle
> > option, so the asm
> > names are converted back to readable C++ names.
> >
> > We'd probably have to compare outputs of nm on the wxWindows
> > .so file, once
> > with demangling and once without, and then import the
> > functions in wxEuphoria
> > via the mangled names, as you have already guessed. If I can,
> > I'll try to
> > write a function that can automaticly demangle the names
> > directly, thus
> > avoiding the need to compare such a huge list of names for
> > wxEuphoria with nm
> > .. twice.
>
> That's exactly what we'll need. What I did will the dll was to copy the
> unmangled names into Excel, and assigned them each the proper ordinal, and
> used that for reference. Then I put that into a text file, and wrote a
> little program to wrap the ordinals for me. I've now got a file that's
> slightly over 1Mb of constant declarations. At some point, I'll need to
> break them up somehow, but I'm not sure how to do that when we'll have a
> similar list for the Linux version.
>
> I've been working on making it into a real library. Hopefully I'll have
> something worth looking at in a few days.
>
> Matt Lewis
>
I haven't even finished compiling wxWindows yet. :[ Its been going on for DAYS
now. *sigh*
If it ever finishes, I'll use nm on it twice, as said, and save the outputs.
Then, perhaps I can write a wrapper program that will write out an include
file which holds a table, for function name conversion.
I just made that sound a lot easier than it probably will be.
jbrown
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