<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> <div>I've just made a build of dbus-glib for Visual Studio 2008 (using winDBus). </div> <div> </div> <div>I just had to do a few tweaks to make this work</div> <ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 19pt; "> <li>Use config.h file generated on Linux build (I have a Core 2 Duo machine running Fedora 10)</li><li>Create an empty unistd.h include file</li><li>Link against libintl-proxy</li><li>A code change in dbus-gvalue.c.</li></ul> <div> </div> <div>A question to the maintainers - is his code change worthy of a check-in ? Or does someone have a better workaround ? See details below.</div> <div> </div> <div>Code change was in dbus-gvalue.c in demarshal_strv(). C does not accept variable declarations after statements, so the following code causes the Microsoft compiler to generate error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type' at the line <font face="Courier New"> </font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000FF">const</font><font face="Courier New"> </font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000FF">char</font><font face="Courier New"> *</font><font face="Courier New" color="#010001">str</font><font face="Courier New">;</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> (see snippet below)</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">  <font color="#0000FF">while</font> ((<font color="#010001">current_type</font> = <font color="#010001">dbus_message_iter_get_arg_type</font> (&<font color="#010001">subiter</font>)) != <font color="#010001">DBUS_TYPE_INVALID</font>)</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">    {</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">g_assert</font> (<font color="#010001">current_type</font> == <font color="#010001">DBUS_TYPE_STRING</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#0000FF">const</font> <font color="#0000FF">char</font> *<font color="#010001">str</font>;</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#0000FF">char</font> *<font color="#010001">copy</font>;</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">dbus_message_iter_get_basic</font> (&<font color="#010001">subiter</font>, &<font color="#010001">str</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">copy</font> = <font color="#010001">g_strdup</font> (<font color="#010001">str</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">g_array_append_val</font> (<font color="#010001">arr</font>, <font color="#010001">copy</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">dbus_message_iter_next</font> (&<font color="#010001">subiter</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">    }</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial, sans-serif">A simple change to put the delcrations before the other statements avoid the error (see below)</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">  <font color="#0000FF">while</font> ((<font color="#010001">current_type</font> = <font color="#010001">dbus_message_iter_get_arg_type</font> (&<font color="#010001">subiter</font>)) != <font color="#010001">DBUS_TYPE_INVALID</font>)</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">    {</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#0000FF">const</font> <font color="#0000FF">char</font> *<font color="#010001">str</font>;</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#0000FF">char</font> *<font color="#010001">copy</font>;</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">g_assert</font> (<font color="#010001">current_type</font> == <font color="#010001">DBUS_TYPE_STRING</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">dbus_message_iter_get_basic</font> (&<font color="#010001">subiter</font>, &<font color="#010001">str</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">copy</font> = <font color="#010001">g_strdup</font> (<font color="#010001">str</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">g_array_append_val</font> (<font color="#010001">arr</font>, <font color="#010001">copy</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">      <font color="#010001">dbus_message_iter_next</font> (&<font color="#010001">subiter</font>);</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">    }</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div> <div>Thanks,</div> <div> </div> <div>Henry Bruce</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </font> </body> </html>