From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2001-10-06T20:29:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22155] Re: FXRuby does not compile -- problem with ruby source

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:29:39AM +0900, Niklas Frykholm wrote:
> FXRuby 1.74 does not compile for me, under the latest ruby CVS using gcc
> 2.96-0.62 on Mandrake.
[...]
> The problem seems to be that ruby uses
> 
>     #define ANYARGS ...
> 
> as the argument list for a callback function with unspecified arguments.
> But g++ does not interpret this as a callback function with
> unspecified arguments, but as a callback function with (...) as
> argument.

Well, I have fixed the immediate problem by tweaking the header files
manually and inserting the needed prototypes. It seems like g++
accepts (...) as the argument list in function prototypes, but not in
callback function prototypes. I wonder why.

// Niklas