harmonia & build

[Hasan Aljudy]

Yeah, I realize the thing about the main function being an 
implementation detail.

I think when build sees the WinMain() in the win32application.d it will 
try to build an executable.

Now, win32application.d is eventually seen by "build" as it tries to add 
the imported files.

The problem is, When I tried this yesterday, harmonia was inside the 
phobos source directory; it turned out that build "ignores" phobos 
modules!! I discovered this when I used the -V switch on build.

I tried to move harmonia to somewhere else, and it seemed to work 
better, but still produces errors.

There were a couple of problems ..
First, harmonia uses a different version of std.boxer from what's in phobos.
I had to change the std.boxer that came with harmonia to somethign else 
(I made it hboxer) and edit a couple of files to fix the imports.

The second problem was, some modules have names that don't match the 
path where they reside, so I had to fix those. e.g. harmonia/string.d is 
module harmonia.utils.string

When I fixed all that, I got a series of errors along the lines of ..

------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 090E3H Record Type 0091
  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _MAILSLOT_NO_MESSAGE
C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 090FFH Record Type 0091
  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _MAILSLOT_WAIT_FOREVER
C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 0911AH Record Type 0091
  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 09139H Record Type 0091
  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _INVALID_SET_FILE_POINTER
C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 09157H Record Type 0091
  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _INVALID_FILE_SIZE
C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 092DEH Record Type 0091
(......)
------------------------------------------------------------------

and so on ..

The good news is, build was trying to build an .exe
This is what I got before the error list:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Wrong conversion!
TODO: selected and value attributes
TODO: selected and value attributes
TODO (cursorSize): make this through SystemMetrics
C:\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe 
C:\dmd\src\other\harmonia\themes\theme+((..........))+C:\dmd\src\other\harmonia\ui\controls\editbox,browser.exe,,gdi32.lib+user32+kernel32,browser.def/noi;

OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I thought the clurpit was hboxer (the boxer module that harmonia uses), 
I just thought that maybe for some reason, the linker thinks the boxer 
implementation is in phobos.lib

I tried to edit harmonia to use the std.boxer in phobos, it wasn't easy 
or fun at all, and in the end I still got the exact same kind of errors 
above.

I thought maybe it's the windows headers that harmonia uses, but at that 
I was tired of trying to fix it. So I stopped working on it.

Does anyone know what does this kind of error messege indicates?

C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(windows)  Offset 090E3H Record Type 0091
  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _MAILSLOT_NO_MESSAGE

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> "Hasan Aljudy" <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:dutvqf$1pek$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>build expects to see a "main" function inside the file sent to it thru the 
>>command line.
>>Harmonia doesn't work that way. The main function is somewhere else!!
> 
> 
> 1) Windows GUI application has WinMain() function instead of main().
> 2) Harmonia tries to isolate you from this platform specific details (e.g. 
> you don't need to reproduce "message pump" in each your application), this 
> is why WinMain function is a part of Harmonia implementation. You don't need 
> to write WinMain each time.
> 
> Please see:
> http://harmonia.terrainformatica.com/pmwiki.php/Harmonia/HarmoniaApplication
> 
> 
>>How can I get build to realize this fact and properly invoke the linker to 
>>build an exe file instead of a lib file?
> 
> 
>>I tried passing the win32application.d file to build, but I got some wierd 
>>link errors!
> 
> 
> I don't know. Would appreciate if someone will tell me.
> You should be able to pass to build.exe name of your main.d file and
> build target type - exe.
> 
> Probably build.exe needs some additional flags in command line? I don't 
> know.
> 
> Andrew Fedoniouk.
> http://terrainformatica.com
> 
> 
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