[antlr-interest] Re: Building antlr libs on MS Visual C++ 6 SP5

[Ric Klaren]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:49:06PM -0000, Aaron Nauman wrote:
> The development version fixes the DLL import/export issues.

Nice.

> I did some testing to try to determine which versions of VC6 require
> the template instantiations.  I tried compiling with SP3 and SP4 of
> VC6 and neither seemed to require their use.  I am going to try to get
> a hold of VC7 tomorrow and try that.

They once were added for the DLL build of VC6 if I recall right. Although
in the development snapshot the VC7 versions prevailed mostly. The original
VC6 versions looked like (using some MS extension ?):

#if defined(_MSC_VER) && !defined(__ICL) // Microsoft Visual C++
extern template class ANTLR_API ASTRefCount<AST>;
#endif

> Any idea what versions require all the template instantiations?  There
> seem to be a quite a few added to the development version, so I guess
> someone must know.

All the new ones are for VC7 DLL build, they are probably harmless for a
static build in VC7. The ones of the format:

#if defined(_MSC_VER) && !defined(__ICL) // Microsoft Visual C++
  template class ANTLR_API ASTRefCount< AST >;
  template class ANTLR_API ANTLR_USE_NAMESPACE(std)allocator< RefAST >;
  template class ANTLR_API ANTLR_USE_NAMESPACE(std)vector< RefAST >;
#endif

My guess is that there needs to be some selection macro for the right
template-curses for the right version of VC (for the right build type).

Cheers,

Ric
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