Re: Introspecting Pango

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont googlemail com> wrote:

> see this example:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2012-August/msg00770.html
>  <type name="TestTypeGUInt64" c:type="RegressTestTypeGUInt64"/>
> it seems that you are missing the name attribute.
> mike
> 

Correct. But foo.gir files aren't made by people, they're made by g-ir-scanner.

g-ir-scanner isn't creating the name attribute from the #defines. The question is, what hint (i.e. annotation) to I pass to g-ir-scanner to get it to do the right thing?

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:41 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
> I'm trying to make Pango introspect on OSX, and The following defines are giving me trouble:
> #define PANGO_GLYPH_EMPTY           ((PangoGlyph)0x0FFFFFFF)
> #define PANGO_GLYPH_INVALID_INPUT   ((PangoGlyph)0xFFFFFFFF)
> #define PANGO_GLYPH_UNKNOWN_FLAG    ((PangoGlyph)0x10000000)
> 
> Produce the following in Pango-1.0.gir:
>    <constant name="GLYPH_EMPTY" value="268435455" c:type="PANGO_GLYPH_EMPTY">
>      <type c:type="PangoGlyph"/>
>    </constant>
> Which dependent introspections (including PangoCairo) reject with the following:
> Pango-1.0.gir:40:34: error: Line 40, character 34: The attribute 'name' on the element 'type' must be specified
> error parsing file Pango-1.0.gir: Line 40, character 34: The attribute 'name' on the element 'type' must be specified
> make[4]: *** [Pango-1.0.typelib] Error 1
> 
> No doubt there's some magic annotation to fix that, but I can't see it from the annotations page on GnomeLive [1]. What is it?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations
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