[fetter-devel] Re: OpenGL on Windows

[Kenny Tilton]

>That's actually what it does. It sets symbols in the required headers
>as the search roots, then marks as reachable anything reachable from
>those roots.  There could be a bug in that algorithm, but I haven't
>encountered anything like that on tests I've done. Although, I haven't
>been able to test windows.h specifically yet. Maybe this weekend I'll
>sneak into the CS labs and use their copy of the full version of ACL.
>
>  
>
>>I think I will go back to my first success (which included windows.h)
>>and see if ACL will accept the resulting (400+kb) library dot lisp.
>>    
>>
>
>A 400kb file isn't an indication that the pruning isn't working. At
>the moment, #define'ed constants aren't pruned because of the way I
>use GCC-XML to do the macro processing. Most of the lines are simple
>"defparameter" declarations that shouldn't cause you much more trouble
>than some extra memory usage.
>
So there is no indication in the GCC-XML output where 
"IMAGE-FILE-MACHINE-ARM" originates?

> On my machine, SBCL compiles a similar
>300KB file (for something that includes opengl.h just to use GLint),
>in a second or two.
>
Compiling takes a few minutes under ACL7.

> Let me know how the loading of that file turns
>out. I just tried loading the binding generated for gl.h, glu.h, and
>glut.h, and it worked fine (with the undefined alien warnings that
>seem to be an SBCL issue).
>
It compiles and loads OK, now I just have to change the constants to 
match VZN's renaming of those.

btw, I am about to take my Xserve downtown to a colocation facility, 
might not be online much till evening.

-- 
Kenny

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