[PySide] Problems building pyside 1.2.1 on AIX (shiboken problem)

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:22:37AM -0400, John Ehresman wrote:
> On 4/16/14, 6:21 PM, Albert Chin wrote:
> > I need to get shiboken to provide the same behavior on Linux as on
> > AIX. While debugging this, it seems that the alias for "uint" doesn't
> > map to "unsigned int" on AIX. In ApiExtractor/typesystem.cpp from
> > shiboken:
> >    bool TypeEntry::isCppPrimitive() const
> >    {
> >        if (!isPrimitive())
> >            return false;
> >
> >        PrimitiveTypeEntry* aliasedType = ((PrimitiveTypeEntry*)this)->basicAliasedTypeEntry();
> >        QByteArray typeName = (aliasedType ? aliasedType->name() : m_name).toAscii();
> >
> > On AIX, aliasedType is NULL while on Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux, it
> > is not. I presume this means there is on alias from "uint" to
> > "unsigned int". Where in the code should I be looking further?
> 
> I suspect this means the "typedef unsigned int uint" isn't being
> seen when shiboken scans the header files during generation on AIX
> while it is seen on the other platforms.  I don't think the uint
> type is special cased inside of shiboken.

Correct. The problem is that on AIX we have:
  typedef unsigned int uint_t;
  typedef uint_t uint;

How do we handle this?

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)