ACE + GC Progress

I spent a few more frustrating hours thrashing around trying to build and link with ACE statically.

Finally, I decided to start from scratch. Strangely "make clean" didn't clean up (as I discovered when a make after make clean didn't recompile!). (Note: Don't run make clean from the top level ACE_wrappers directory - it takes forever recursing into all the examples and tests.)

I rebuilt and ... it worked! Somehow I had still been getting left over shared library stuff. Another requirement is to #define ACE_AS_STATIC_LIBS before include the ACE headers.

Boy, that shouldn't have been so hard! But I can't really blame anyone but myself :-)

But ... now Suneido crashes right away on startup, which seemed more like a step backwards not forwards!

I created a small test program that used ACE and GC. It crashed the same way. Eventually, after another few hours of flailing I hit on the right combination. The key seems to be to initialize GC first, then ACE. But to achieve that, you have to prevent ACE from redefining "main" to do their startup. Here's my successful test program:

#define ACE_AS_STATIC_LIBS 1
#include "ace/Thread_Manager.h"

static ACE_THR_FUNC_RETURN thread_func(void* arg)
{
for (int i = 0; i <>
operator new(10000);
return 0;
}

extern "C" { void GC_init(); }
#undef main
int main(int argc, char**argv)
{
GC_init();
ACE::init();
ACE_Thread_Manager::instance()->spawn_n(2, thread_func);
ACE_Thread_Manager::instance()->wait();
}

At this point I'm quitting for the day. It should be easy to incorporate what I've learned into Suneido, but then I'll just run into the next problem. I'd rather end the day on a positive note!