QStrings

[p-i-]

I have copied /py/* into my C++ project.

I get a preprocessor error in QStr.h:

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enum {
    MP_QSTR_NULL = 0, // indicates invalid/no qstr
    MP_QSTR_ = 1, // the empty qstr
#define Q(id, str) MP_QSTR_##id,
#include "genhdr/qstrdefs.generated.h" <-- here
#undef Q
    MP_QSTR_number_of,
};

Could someone explain what is happening? It looks as though different QStrings are needed for different platforms. But why?

What would be the best way to address this?

π

[dhylands]

That's a generated file.

If you go into the unix directory and do make clean followed by make V=1 then you'll see something like the following:

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542 >make V=1
mkdir -p build/genhdr
CPP ../py/qstrdefs.h
gcc -E -I. -I../py -Ibuild -Wall -Werror -ansi -std=gnu99 -DUNIX -DMICROPY_USE_READLINE=1 -DMICROPY_PY_TIME=1 -DMICROPY_PY_TERMIOS=1   -DMICROPY_PY_FFI=1 -Os   ../py/qstrdefs.h -o build/genhdr/qstrdefs.preprocessed.h
makeqstrdata ../py/qstrdefs.h qstrdefsport.h
python ../py/makeqstrdata.py build/genhdr/qstrdefs.preprocessed.h qstrdefsport.h > build/genhdr/qstrdefs.generated.h
../py/py-version.sh > build/genhdr/py-version.h.tmp
...

The Makefile rules which invoke this are found here: https://github.com/micropython/micropyt ... #L130-L136

qstr's are basically what's referred to as interned strings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning

[p-i-]

For now I have just done the UNIX build and copied /unix/build/genhdr/qstrdefs.generated.h across.