Compiling MFC

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Friday 03 October 2003 07:04 am, Adam Connell wrote:
> I am yet another programmer trying to compile the MFC with winelib.
> I believe that I have the project configured correctly. I am currently
> working on getting it to compile. I am having trouble with Microsoft's
> extensions to C++ specifically:
> throw(...)
> __try
> __except
>
> Is there any kind of work around for these things?
>
> MFC v7.0
> g++ v3.2.2
> wine-cvs

You have uncovered a very squirmy can of worms, I'm afraid.

You have several options, all of them sub-optimal:

1) Use a patched gcc, see http://reactos.wox.org/index.php?page=gccseh
2) Convert the __try blocks into __TRY blocks as supported by wine, see 
include/wine/exception.h.  This will require pretty extensive rewriting of 
the affected code blocks.
3) Just use dummy macros, along the lines of those in include/rpc.h.  This 
approach will /not/ do any real exception handling, but will get you 
compiling quickly... no guarantees your compiled code will work, however.
4) See my old attempts to create macros that approximate this using 
gcc-specific nested functions capabilities, for example, see 
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/05/0394.html
There are probably a dozen or more such attempts floating around, none of them 
quite do the right thing of course :(

Sorry, this business is messy and so far no really satisfactory solution has 
been created for a number of reasons.  Good luck!

-- 
gmt

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