[Haskell-cafe] c2hs and pthreadtypes.h

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

magnus:
> I'm trying to use c2hs but get stuck when including sys/types.h (though
> the problem really resides in pthreadtypes.h):
> 
>  % ./Setup.hs build -v
>  Preprocessing executables for kowasu-0.1...
>  /usr/bin/c2hs -C -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=606 -C -Icsrc -o src/Kowasu/PTrace.hs src/Kowasu/PTrace.chs
>  c2hs: Error in C header file.
> 
>  /usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:69: (column 6) [FATAL]
>    >>> Syntax error!
>    The symbol `;' does not fit here.
> 
> The part of pthreadtypes.h where it chokes seems to be
> 
>  65     __extension__ union
>  66     {
>  67       int __spins;
>  68       __pthread_slist_t __list;
>  69     };
>  70   } __data;
>  71   char __size[__SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T];
>  72   long int __align;
>  73 } pthread_mutex_t;
> 
> Any pointers on how to solve this?  (Besides manually resolving all
> defined types down to the C builtins.)
> 
> /M

Does it help to use the darcs version of c2hs? I've heard rumours that
it can parse the linux kernel now..

-- Don