[Boost-users] Help with updating PowerDNS to boost for easier windows compilation

Subject: [Boost-users] Help with updating PowerDNS to boost for easier windows compilation
From: Todd Nine (todd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-25 00:13:18

Hi all,
   I'm in the process of updating the 2.9.22 source of PowerDNS to be  
a bit more "Windows Friendly" and building it with Visual C++ 8  
(2008).  However, I'm having some issues I could use a hand with.   
Specifically, the authors of powerdns define their own following types

#ifdef NEED_POSIX_TYPEDEF
typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
typedef unsigned short int uint16_t;
typedef unsigned int uint32_t;
typedef unsigned long long uint64_t;
#endif

These types are used extensively in the code.  Rather than prefix each  
reference with the boost:: namspace, I would like to make boot the  
standard namespace for these data types.  Everything includes the  
header file with the definition above, is there a way for me to do  
this?  I haven't done C and C++ in 9 years, and even then only on very  
small projects and small patches, so your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

todd
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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