I am porting an open source library to a system without make or cmake.
I have encountered this construct in one of the headers
#define HAVE_STDINT_H @HAVE_STDINT_H@
#if HAVE_STDINT_H ...
what is the meaning of that construct?
who is supposed to set the value and how?
my compiler understand it literally as the string "@HAVE_STDINT_H@"
Thank you
ZA
Presumably @HAVE_STDINT_H@ is some kind of CMake configuration variable that will evaluate to true in the preprocessor when <stdint.h> is available. So, if <stdint.h> is available, HAVE_STDINT_H will be true, so the conditional code will be present for compiling, but if it is not available, HAVE_STDINT_H will be false or empty, so the conditional will not be present for compiling.
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Thank you for the explanation.
That means that the C compiler/macro processor should understand @xxx@ as an externally supplied value and I assume that gcc works that way. I have no sign that my compiler (IBM C for z/OS) complies with that convention. Oh well
ZA
No, it is more likely to be something that CMake's own system would replace before any of C's stages of translation. If you already know that the compiler is gcc, then there would be no need for such a configuration variable: with gcc, whether or not <stdint.h> is available depends on whether you compile with respect to C99 (or later, assuming a hosted implementation), so you would use the standard predefined macro __STDC_VERSION__ to check.
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