Started to update to last rustc version (removing box closure)

[GuillaumeGomez]

Can you take a look at it @jeremyletang ?

[gsingh93]

Bumping this. The alpha is out, so now is a good time to fix these build errors.

[GuillaumeGomez]

It's kinda difficult to update a code which I didn't write. That's why it's taking so much time.

[gsingh93]

No problem. I'll try to help if I get time and can figure anything out.

[GuillaumeGomez]

It would be very appreciated ! Thanks !

[gsingh93]

I commented out that macro error because I couldn't figure it out, and I continued to fix the other errors (we can come back to it later). My progress is tracked here: https://github.com/gsingh93/rgtk/tree/fix-build

One significant change was that ToCStr was removed, so we have to use CString::from_slice() now (this migration isn't complete yet). Another change is that CVec is gone. I'm not familiar with doing FFI, so I can't really figure out what that needs to be changed to.

[GuillaumeGomez]

For the ToCStr and CVec stuff, I made bindings here and here. The functions are just the same. For an example, look my rust-fmod repo or my rust-GSL repo.

[jeremyletang]

@gsingh93, you should prefer the new way provide by the std to handle the c types, as they should be maintained forever in the standard distribution of Rust.

I will check the macro / closure stuff if you can't @gsingh93, as soon as I have time.

[gsingh93]

My plan is to convert all the ToCStr to use CString, use @GuillaumeGomez's CVec bindings for now, fix all the errors I can, then figure out the CVec stuff later (I think I'll have to wrap those types in my own structs that have destructors).

After fixing a bunch more errors, I'm left with a lot of these errors:

src/gtk/macros.rs:37:18: 37:22 error: the trait `Copy` may not be implemented for this type; the type has a destructor [E0184]
src/gtk/macros.rs:37         #[derive(Copy)]

Not sure what the right fix is. Removing the Copy trait might break more things. I don't even know what breaking change this is related to.

[gsingh93]

What is the best way to fix the Copy/Drop issues? Specifically what's going on is that we have this macro:

macro_rules! struct_Widget(
    ($gtk_struct:ident) => (
        #[derive(Copy)]
        pub struct $gtk_struct {
            pointer: *mut ffi::C_GtkWidget
        }
    );
);

Which creates a widget struct that derives copy, but some widgets also call the impl_drop!() macro. Copy and Drop can't be implemented on the same object for safety reasons.

[jeremyletang]

hi @gsingh93, we can change the macro and remove the #[derive(Copy)] then implement manually impl Copy for YourWidget {} or a Clone impl for the struct which implements Drop too.

[gsingh93]

I think removing the Copy impl is probably the best thing to do, because we shouldn't be copying the pointer without adding to the reference count like we do in Clone. I've removed it for now.

My current progress is in this pull request: https://github.com/jeremyletang/rgtk/pull/180. I think I'm done working on this for a little while, so if either of you want to continue, you can consider starting from there.

[GuillaumeGomez]

And it's now finished ! @jeremyletang, you can check !

[gsingh93]

Nice! There was a macro in signals.rs that I had commented out. Don't forget to comment it back in and fix it before merging.

[GuillaumeGomez]

For the macro, it'll wait. I'm way too tired for that. Just waiting to get travis answer.