[fetter-devel] Possible solution for multiple includes

[Kenny Tilton]

Frank Goenninger - PRION Consulting wrote:

> I will have to look into GCC-XML further, but I still don't see why  
> you don't do what C does:
>
> All the includes are included. That, for me, means: Everything in  
> every included include-file has to be declared/defined: functions,  
> data types, constants, ... 

The problem is on win32, where something like FreeGlut.h (IIRC) may 
include a little thing called "windows.h".

Want to guess how big was the resulting freeglut-library.lisp? :)

Now leave aside that problem (windows.h including everything under the 
sun whether freeglut needs it or not). How about stdlib.h, which 
Freeglut likely does need. Do we want bindings for that? Absolutely not 
if we are just trying to get to Freeglut. Freeglut has an API, and that 
is all we want.

True, some C junkie might get off on having stdlib at their disposal 
from Lisp, but that is completely unrelated to getting bindings to 
Freeglut, and they should be getting those bindings by making 
stdlib-binding.lisp and using VZN on that.

kt