Sun Forte C++ 6 Update 1

["Majeed, Zartaj" <za...@kanisa.com>]

I managed to build and run testXSLT v.1.1.0 using Forte C++ 6 Update 1 on
Solaris 8 10/00 which involved building libxerces-c1_4.so and
libxalan-c1_1.so
on the same platform.
Since there are no recent archives of this mailing list or of xerces-c-dev,
I don't
know if somebody has already posted this information but here's what I did.

I built libxerces-c1_4.so by downloading its source separately and typing:
runConfigure -d -p solaris -c cc -x CC; make

Then I copied libxerces-c1_4.that I had built to xml-xerces/c/lib and 
xml-xalan/c/lib.

Building libxalan-c1_1.so required some source changes:

1. xml-xalan/c/src/Include/SolarisDefinitions.hpp:
Various macros no longer need be defined. The ones I kept are:
#define XALAN_XALANDOMCHAR_USHORT_MISMATCH // since wchar_t on Solaris is 32
bits
#define XALAN_BIG_ENDIAN
And looking at the definitions file for other platforms, I decided to add:
#define XALAN_LSTRSUPPORT // I guess this means wide literals L"" support?
If not, then what?
#define XALAN_FULL_WCHAR_SUPPORT
#define XALAN_RTTI_AVAILABLE
I also had to keep:
#define XALAN_NO_STD_ALLOCATORS
because without it I got the error:
./PlatformSupport/ArenaBlock.hpp:198: Error: Cannot assign void* to
XalanSourceTreeAttr*.
This seemed to be caused by std::allocator::allocate returning void * which
should not be
happening but since defining XALAN_NO_STD_ALLOCATORS made the error
disappear,
I did not investigate it further.

2. Above changes resulted in the following compile error for
XalanTransformer/XalanCAPI.cpp:
"./XalanTransformer/XalanTransformerOutputStream.hpp", line 72: Error:
Multiple declaration for XalanOutputHandlerType.
"./XalanTransformer/XalanTransformerOutputStream.hpp", line 76: Error:
Multiple declaration for XalanFlushHandlerType.

This was due to XalanOutputHandlerType defined in both
XalanTransformerOutputStream.hpp
and XalanCAPI.h. The two header files were then being included in
XalanCAPI.cpp.

Ostensibly the compiler should have not complained because the definition
for XalanOutputHandlerType
was extern "C" in XalanCAPI.h and not extern "C" in
XalanTransformerOutputStream.hpp. But Forte
treated them as the same type. So I took the definitions out of the extern
"C" block in XalanCAPI.h and
guarded them against multiple inclusion in both header files with:

#ifndef XALAN_OUTPUT_HANDLER_TYPE
typedef unsigned long (*XalanOutputHandlerType) (const void*, unsigned long,
const void*);
#define XALAN_OUTPUT_HANDLER_TYPE
#endif
#ifndef XALAN_FLUSH_HANDLER_TYPE
typedef void (*XalanFlushHandlerType) (const void*);
#define XALAN_FLUSH_HANDLER_TYPE
#endif

Taking them out of the extern "C" block helped because otherwise the linker
complained about
either the extern "C" typedef missing or the other typedef missing depending
on which typedef
was included first.

3. Another point to note is Forte C++ 6 ships with RogueWave's C++ standard
library so
there is no need to follow any directions about using STLport.

4. testXSLT ran successfully on a simple example.

Zartaj