[Kde-bindings] Patch for building QtRuby 1.4.9 with windows msvc6

[Gary L. Greene, Jr.]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 03:50:44 am Richard Dale wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 08:50:34 am Richard Dale wrote:
> > > Kenichi Matsumoto has successfully built QtRuby 1.4.9 with msvc6, see
> > > here:
> > >
> > > http://www.jzkey.com/qtruby/
> > >
> > > Which is really good news.
> > >
> > > However, the patch he has made to the marshalling code (please find
> > > attached) is pretty extensive and I wonder if we can make the same code
> > > build on all platforms.
> > >
> > > -- Richard
> >
> > To be completely honest, you shouldn't be supporting MSVC6, but only
> > MSVC7 and above. The reason for this is that the compiler in VC6 isn't
> > standards compliant at all. When I was working at a closed source
> > software house, when we moved to VC7 it made porting to Linux and Mac OS
> > X much more likely as there were a number of changes needed to get it to
> > compile right on VC7 that brought their code much closer to ANSI
> > standard.
>
> Ah ok, I didn't realise that MSVC6 wasn't the current compiler. The use of
> templates for the marshalling code didn't seem that fancy to me, and I
> couldn't see why it needed such a lot of changes. It sounds as though it
> should work with VC7 though. I assume there aren't any binary compatibility
> problems once it actually does compile and so what Kenichi Matsumoto has
> done is still really useful for getting qtruby off the ground on Windows.
>
> -- Richard
>
>
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It might require some changes to the code, but note nearly as many as with 
VC6. As I work more with Linux systems these days with working at Google, I 
don't have access to MSVC7 at this time to test. Oh and to explain what 
releases of MSVC are using 7 or above in their release, Visual Studio 2000 
and 2003 are released with the series 7 compiler. 2003 is even more 
compatible to ANSI than 2000.