dbus errors

Christian Ehrlicher Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de
Sat Apr 12 14:40:01 CEST 2008


Jeff Mitchell schrieb:
> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Peter Kümmel wrote:
>>> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't produce anything.  It just shifts the errors 
>>>>> down by one line...no warnings about previous definitions of interface 
>>>>> are given.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, doing:
>>>>> #undef interface
>>>>>
>>>>> Makes compile work again.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I solve this?  It's probably a result of including some of the 
>>>>> various Microsoft files I needed to include in order to get WMI 
>>>>> methods written.  But I don't really want to #undef things that are 
>>>>> supposed to be defined willy-nilly, nor can I expect that "patch Qt" 
>>>>> is a reasonable answer  :-)
>>> You could also remove "interface" in the Qt header or rename it, the
>>> name isn't important in the header:
>>>
>>> static QDBusMessage createSignal(const QString &path, const QString
>>> &interface_this_name_is_totally_arbitrary, const QString &name);
>>>
>>> Then we could try to post a patch to Trolltech not to use "interface"
>>> as name for variables in declaration.
>> Thiago, is there a snowball's chance in hell of this happening?
>> (especially in 4.4?)  I'm including some standard include headers in my
>> files on Windows to query WMI for hardware information.  I'm still 
>> trying to pinpoint the exact MS include file that is causing 
>> this...there are several that #define interface, but so far none that 
>> appear in my includes list...but I haven't been able to check the normal 
>> VC includes yet (i.e. I don't *think* that any of the Win2K3 SDK ones 
>> are defining it).
> 
> Testing this, I forgot that there's a method named interface()...it 
> doesn't only appear in unimportant places.  Which means that to change 
> it would be to break API...not going to happen.  Not sure if an "#undef 
> interface" might be possible...
> 
Are you really sure it's the 'interface' which screws up your build? 
e.g. did renaming the variable name to something other work?


Christian


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