KConfig compiler. GenerateProperties and Mutable.

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Artem Fedoskin <afedoskin3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear KDE developers,
>
> For my GSoC 2016 project at KDE (Lite version of KStars for mobile devices)
> I need to access C++ class generated from XML configure file with KConfig
> compiler from QML. I found in this patch
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123367/ and in the source code of KConfig
> compiler that I should set GenerateProperties=true in my .kcfgc file to
> create option properties as Q_PROPERTY. However, I got following error "Too
> many signals to create unique bit masks". There is some conflict between
> Mutators and GenerateProperties options that causes this error in my XML
> configure file but I can't figure out what I should change to have setters
> in Q_PROPERTY.
>
> Would be grateful if someone could help me with this issue.
>
> Options.kcfgc - https://paste.kde.org/pm1klcbls
>
> kstars.kcfg - https://paste.kde.org/phit6qibo

Hi Artem,
KConfigCompiler is limited in this regard by an implementation detail.
See "uint mSettingsChanged;".

To solve it, I would patch kconfig_compiler and turn it into an
std::vector<bool> or patch kstars.kcfg to use separate config files
rather than a huge one.

HTH,
Aleix