wpp

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> On December 8, 2002 05:56 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > I believe it was mostly issues with getting rid of C code in header
> > files, though that is handled in the main parser now. Still, it's not
> > guaranteed that the C preprocessor would handle non C code correctly.
>
> Hmm, I don't know about that either -- windres certainly calls gcc -E,
> and it's working just fine.

Projects compiled using MinGW and windres are not 'normal' Windows
projects. In particular they don't prove that a project built using
Visual C++ and rc is going to compile if you process the rc files using
gcc -E.

Given the dominant position of Visual C++ on the Windows platform,
compatibility with Visual C++ projects is the main point of Winelib. it
is orders of magnitude more important than compatibility with windres
and MinGW-based projects. Let's not forget the goal of Winelib: making
it possible to recompile Windows applications to Unix, not making it
possible to compile native Unix applications using the Windows
API+MinGW. Better compatibility with MinGW is a means to that end, no
more.

I don't know whether we still need the integrated preprocessor, but I
think we should not be too hasty in removing it. It would be pretty bad
to remove it just to discover a few months later that it was needed
after all.

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