[CMake] Proposal of Microsoft DLLs to Borland wrapping capabilities

[Luca Picello]

Hello Andy,
I'm using Borland C++ builder 6. Not the free compiler.
It seems old version (free) runs better than newer. ITK for example does 
not compile and is not supported for bcc6.
And VTK is now incredibly big too. More than maximum allowed by Borland 
limits especially compiling in debug mode or static linkage. [ 
http://www.itk.org/HTML/CompilerIssues.htm ]

Converting to omf is enough only for pure C functions. For C++ we have 
different naming conventions.

[from 
http://www.devarticles.com/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=931&hide_js=1 
]
there are differences in the schemes that different vendors adopt to 
mangle member names. The ANSI C++ standard does not govern the 
specifications of how a compiler should mangle class member names. 
Today, in absence of a strict standard in place, all the vendors have 
each developed their own techniques for name mangling, and the resulting 
conventions are certainly not compatible

However my idea ( if applicable ) will result applicable only to dlls 
with release compilation option because different environments uses 
different intermediate/debug files. It could me my proposal could be 
completely useless but.. I'd like to hear your opinion.
Any comments?

Luca





Andy Cedilnik wrote:

>Hi Luca,
>
>What exactly is the problem with VTK and Borland? We run nightly
>dashboard of VTK on borland with and without Tcl wrapping.
>
>That said, you could run a custom command that converts libraries to omf
>format if that is what you want.
>
>       Andy
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>Luca Picello wrote:
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>>I'd like to use Borland C++ builder IDE which is great for GUI
>>development with VTK/ITK etc.
>>However due to Borland compiler bugs it is impossible to successfully
>>compile VTK > 4.4.
>>I do not know when and if those bugs will be resolved but a possible
>>solution can be wrapping classes from DLLs from Microsoft compiler and
>>include them in the project.
>>This work is pretty hard due of impilib impdef etc tools that have to
>>be invoked and manual text files we have to produce to include every
>>single function from MS-DLLs.
>>Is there or there will be, any way to do it automatically with cmake?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Luca
>>
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