[C2hs] C2HS Failure on stdio.h on Mac OS X 10.4

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sun Jul 17 14:31:35 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:43 -0400, Matthew Cox wrote:
> I was trying to get gtk2hs into darwinports. The build was going fine  
> until it errored out with this failure:
> 
> 
> > ./tools/c2hs/c2hsLocal +RTS -H50m -M80m -RTS -C-I/opt/local/include/ 
> > glib-2.0 -C-I/opt/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -C-DXTHREADS -C-I/opt/ 
> > local/include/gtk-2.0 -C-I/opt/local/lib/gtk-2.0/include -C-I/usr/ 
> > X11R6/include -C-I/opt/local/include/pango-1.0 -C-I/opt/local/ 
> > include/freetype2 -C-I/opt/local/include/atk-1.0 --cppopts='- 
> > include "gtk2hs-config.h"' --precomp=gtk/gtk.precomp gtk/gtk.h
> > elapsed time: 0.02 (start)
> > elapsed time: 0.02 (about to parse headder)
> > c2hsLocal: Error in C header file.
> >
> > /usr/include/stdio.h:258: (column 42) [FATAL]
> >   >>> Syntax error!
> >   The symbol `__asm' does not fit here.
> >
> > make[2]: *** [gtk/gtk.precomp] Error 1
> >
> 
> I know that the gtk2hs guys built a new parser/lexer, and it appears  
> indeed to be a parse error. C

Yes, neither the old nor the new C lexers understand the __asm symbol. 

This is something we obviously need to fix. I'll look into the gcc __asm
feature as soon as I have a free moment. Any fix will appear in Gtk2Hs
0.9.8.1 and patches will be sent to the mainline c2hs.

Duncan



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