[QBS] setting windowsApiCharacterSet

[Kurt Keller]

Am Montag, den 28.10.2013
schrieb 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)  <luoyonggang at gmail.com>:

Thank you for your answer.

> \section2 windowsApiCharacterSet
> 
>     \table
>     \row    \li \b{Type:}            \li \c{string}
>     \row    \li \b{Allowed Values:}  \li \c{"unicode"}, \c{"mbcs"},
> \c{undefined}
>     \row    \li \b{Default:}         \li \c{"unicode"}
>     \endtable

I found this in the 1.0.1 docs:
  Type: string
  Allowed Values: "unicode", "mbcs", undefined
  Default: "unicode"
Is there a newer documentation around?

> 
> use "mbcs" instead.
> 

Using "mbcs" instead leads to the compiler call:

  cl.exe ....  /D_MBCS /DUNICODE /D_UNICODE ...

and does not suppress /DUNICODE.

> 
> 2013/10/28 Kurt Keller <kk at parity-software.com>
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > when I have a simple project (which only depends on the 'cpp' module) I
> > can set windowsApiCharacterSet:undefined to get rid of the /DUNICODE
> > and /D_UNICODE defines on windows.
> >
> > But this does not work if there is an additional dependency to a other
> > module, which depends itself on 'cpp':
> >
> > ------------------- main.qbs
> > import qbs 1.0
> > Application {
> >   ...
> >   Depends { name: 'cpp' }
> >   Depends { name: 'myModule' }
> >
> >   cpp.windowsApiCharacterSet: undefined
> >   ...
> > }
> >
> > ------------------- myModule.qbs
> > import qbs 1.0
> > Module {
> >   Depends { name: 'cpp' }
> >   ... // no further references to windowsApiCharacterSet here
> > }
> >
> > In this example qbs generates compiler calls with \D_UNICODE and
> > \DUNICODE set. I can stop this only by inserting
> >
> >   myModule.cpp.windowsApiCharacterSet: undefined
> >
> > into the Application { ... } block.
> >
> > What am I missing? Imho this is very impractical, because the writer of
> > the main QBS File must know the internals of myModule to specify
> > compiler flags correctly.
> >
> > Is there a method to undefine or to unset compiler defines globally?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards
> > Kurt Keller
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> 
> 
> 



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