Re: [Boost-users] Help with updating PowerDNS to boost for easier windows compilation

25 Jul 2009

      AMDG

Todd Nine wrote:
...
I'm in the process of updating the 2.9.22 source of PowerDNS to be a 
bit more "Windows Friendly" and building it with Visual C++ 8 (2008).  
However, I'm having some issues I could use a hand with.  
Specifically, the authors of powerdns define their own following types
#ifdef NEED_POSIX_TYPEDEF
typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
typedef unsigned short int uint16_t;
typedef unsigned int uint32_t;
typedef unsigned long long uint64_t;
#endif
These types are used extensively in the code.  Rather than prefix each 
reference with the boost:: namspace, I would like to make boot the 
standard namespace for these data types.
Does this do what you want?

#ifdef NEED_POSIX_TYPEDEF
#include 
using boost::unit8_t;
using boost::uint16_t;
using boost::uint32_t;
using boost::uint64_t;
#endif

This is a little tricky because if you platform already
has stdint.h, these typedefs will already be defined
in the global namespace so redefining them is an
error.
...
Everything includes the header file with the definition above, is 
there a way for me to do this?  I haven't done C and C++ in 9 years, 
and even then only on very small projects and small patches, so your 
help is greatly appreciated.
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe