[chuck-dev] charAt, substring for strings

[Albert Wifstrand]

Ok. I've implemented a .substring(...) method, although since I couldn't 
build ChucK from the primary development branch (using the URL in 
https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/chuck-dev/2011-November/000422.html), 
I wrote it and compiled it into the stable release (1.2.1.3).

The things is that I want to get a clean, working ChucK compile for OS X 
_and_ Windows 7 from the same source tree. When trying to build ChucK 
from the primary dev. branch using the latest Cygwin environment 
(1.7.11-1) I get the following error during "make win32":

In file included from chuck_errmsg.cpp:40:0:
util_thread.h:77:17: error: ‘THREAD_FUNCTION’ has not been declared
util_thread.h:90:5: error: ‘THREAD_HANDLE’ does not name a type
util_thread.h: In member function ‘void XThread::clear()’:
util_thread.h:87:20: error: ‘thread’ was not declared in this scope
util_thread.h: At global scope:
util_thread.h:111:5: error: ‘MUTEX’ does not name a type
makefile:101: recipe for target `chuck_errmsg.o' failed
make: *** [chuck_errmsg.o] Error 1

The stable release, however, builds in Win7 without errors. In addition, 
I can build both the stable release and the SVN source tree in OS X. 
Can't tell what's wrong. As far as I know I have all the necessary tools 
listed at http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/. Am I missing Cygwin 
packages??

Now, the substring method is just some 30 lines of code, but when I can 
build ChucK from the SVN source tree in both OS's I can contribute with 
my substring method; just want to see that it works with the latest code.

Regards,
Albert

Spencer Salazar wrote 2012-03-22 11.18:
> Hey Albert,
>
> That method doesn't exist, and as you've seen, the overall
> documentation for ChucK is underdeveloped with regards to more recent
> additions to the language. Its recently become painfully obvious to me
> that a charAt-type method is pretty important for even basic string
> manipulation, so I was considering shoehorning it into the next
> release.
>
> As far as list vs. forum, I follow chuck-users and chuck-dev pretty
> closely, and chuck-users is even sporadically lively, but I tend not
> to hit the forum unless directed to it by some other means (e.g. a
> post to this list).
>
> spencer
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Albert Wifstrand<albert at wifstrand.se>  wrote:
>> Does ChucK have these?
>>
>> I know there's upper() and lower() for case conversion, are these (perhaps
>> even along with a complete specification on ChucK strings) documented
>> somewhere?
>>
>> I asked about this in the forum too, at
>> http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-52680.html. Sorry about the
>> cross-posting, but I'd also like to know if there's any activity here on
>> chuck-dev, since there isn't much of that in the forum.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Albert Wifstrand
>>
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