Compiling via C code

[WhoAteDaCake]

Hello, I've noticed that most headers are C compatible, but when I tried to compile, I encountered some issues like:

sciter-x-api.h:508:31: error: initializer element is not a compile-time constant

Is it possible to compile it via pure c, or are there features, which would not allow to do it ? The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to create bindings to Crystal language. I'll try and see if I can apply fixes manually, but it would be good to know if it's not possible. Thanks !

[pravic]

In CGO it is patched as

https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter/blob/master/sciter-x-api.c#L10-L26

[c-smile]

Will this be better?

  inline ISciterAPI* SAPI() {
#if defined(__cplusplus) && !defined(PLAIN_API_ONLY)
    static ISciterAPI* _api = _SAPI(NULL);
#else 
    static ISciterAPI* _api = 0;
    if (!_api) _api = _SAPI(NULL);
#endif
    return _api;
  }

[WhoAteDaCake]

Thanks for that, I've applied some changes, which can be seen in here: https://github.com/WhoAteDaCake/sciter-tests/blob/master/patches/0.patch

However, I'm still having a few issues when linking, I'm trying to call SciterCreateWindow function, which caused

undefined reference to `SciterCreateWindow'

Yet there was no error about missing libsciter-gtk .After running objdump --demangle -T libsciter-gtk.so I found:

00000000003217d1 g    DF .text  000000000000031c  Base        SciterCreateWindow_api(unsigned int, tagRECT*, void**, void*, _GtkWidget*)

It seems like a linking error, but I can't seem to figure out the problem

[luxtau]

Did you compile this as WINDOWLESS?

sciter-sdk/include/sciter-x-api.h

Lines 562 to 565 in 29a598b

	#if !defined(WINDOWLESS)
	inline HWINDOW SCAPI SciterCreateWindow ( UINT creationFlags,LPRECT frame, SciterWindowDelegate* delegate, LPVOID delegateParam, HWINDOW parent) { return SAPI()->SciterCreateWindow (creationFlags,frame,delegate,delegateParam,parent); }
	#endif

[WhoAteDaCake]

No, I didn't specify any -D flags. My linker command looks something like:

cc "${@}" -o /home/ubuntu/.cache/crystal/crystal-run-main.tmp -rdynamic -L/usr/bin/../lib/crystal/lib -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lsciter-gtk -I/home/ubuntu/projects/sciter-tests/src/../include/ -L/home/ubuntu/projects/sciter-tests/src/../libs -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lpcre -lm -lgc -lpthread /usr/share/crystal/src/ext/libcrystal.a -levent -lrt -ldl

When fully extended

[WhoAteDaCake]

Thanks for the help. I managed to build it properly, by first building a C file, where I re-defined all functions, then use that library file as the main entry. You can see it here https://github.com/WhoAteDaCake/sciter-tests