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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Help with updating PowerDNS to boost for easier windows compilation
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-25 01:19:01

AMDG

Todd Nine wrote:
>   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.

Does this do what you want?

#ifdef NEED_POSIX_TYPEDEF
#include <boost/cstdint.hpp>
using boost::unit8_t;
using boost::uint16_t;
using boost::uint32_t;
using boost::uint64_t;
#endif

This is a little tricky because if you platform already
has stdint.h, these typedefs will already be defined
in the global namespace so redefining them is an
error.

> 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.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe