[Xcb] what is generated by XML and what isn't? (newbie question)

[darrenjones at warpmail.net]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:06:38 +0100 (CET), "Vincent Torri"
<vtorri at univ-evry.fr> said:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, darrenjones at warpmail.net wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I'm new to XCB and lower-level X11 programming, and I'm a bit confused.
> > In order to produce a working libxcb.so library, what parts are
> > generated by XML and what parts are hand coded by C? For example, I
> > don't see anything which might generate xcb_connect() in xcb-proto/src's
> > XML's.
> 
> the C code corresponding to the X protocol is generated from XML files in 
> xcb-proto, and they are copied in libxcb/src
> 
> the other files C files that are not generated are in libxcb/src after 
> gettingg it from git (the archives already contains the C files generated 
> by xcb-proo, afaik), and only them. For example, see :
> 
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb/libxcb.git;a=tree;h=63eac0b00ddab55f1cdc0d7246b131c6a9dd0e2d;hb=947a2e26e4217531e612a5110e6f95296c94614f;f=src
> 
> hth
> 
> Vincent

Thank you for the clarification. Yes, the C files that are generated are
included in the libxcb tar archive, which is a bit strange since
xcb-proto is apparently still required for building libxcb.

Darren