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1919 :: dynlib os variation

• geezer9 (orginal) [2016-01-03T02:42:27+01:00] view original

  I recently implemented the variation of a dynlib pragma via the when construction. Surely there is a better way of doing this. I tried substituting libname for the actual library name - but that gave an undeclared identifier error. My hack (which does work) was:

  when hostOS=="windows":
     proc loopStepWait(): cint {.importc: "IupLoopStepWait", cdecl, dynlib:"iup.dll",     discardable.}
  else:
     proc loopStepWait(): cint {.importc: "IupLoopStepWait", cdecl, dynlib:"libiup.so", discardable.}
  Run

  And, no, I do not want to generate my own version of iup using c2nim - I saw the posts on doing that.

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• jlp765 (orginal) [2016-01-03T03:28:49+01:00] view original

  when defined(windows): const libname* = "iup.dll" elif defined(macosx): const libname* = "libiup.dylib" else: const libname* = "libiup.so" proc loopStepWait(): cint {.importc: "IupLoopStepWait", cdecl, dynlib: libname, discardable.}

  Run

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• geezer9 (orginal) [2016-01-03T03:40:28+01:00] view original

  I was assuming that the compiler had some way to automatically define some variable like the libname used above - since importing iup must use that information. I was hoping there was some way for my nim code to use that information as well.

  I'll use the libname scheme above, once I need more than one extra iup name.

  Thanks

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