Bug 414685 – dev-libs/xlslib - C++/C library to construct Excel .xls files in code

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Petric Frank 2012-05-05 07:59:48 UTC]

Created attachment 310829 [details]
ebuild file to build the xlslib

Created an ebuild for a platform independent library (C/C++) named xlslib.

Placed here if someone else needs a C or C++ library to read and/or write XLS (not XLSX !) files.

Proposed location in portage: x11-libs/xlslib

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-05-05 16:21:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Proposed location in portage: x11-libs/xlslib

Why x11-libs? It doesn't appear to be X11 related at all.

Also note that this should probably not be confused with dev-libs/libxls. :)

[Comment 2 Petric Frank 2012-05-05 21:38:55 UTC]

Sorry - my mistake.

You're right. I meant dev-libs.

[Comment 3 Petric Frank 2012-08-08 12:14:49 UTC]

Created attachment 320688 [details]
Updated ebuild file

Updated ebuild file.

Fixes:
1. patch installed #include statements to point to the proper locations
2. hardcode inclusion of xlconfig.h in xlsys.h

The include files were installed into /usr/include/xlslib, but the files there uses include statements in the style
 #include "common/xlsys.h"

instead of
 #include "xlslib/common/xlsys.h"

Fix 1. was introduced to cover this using a couple of sed statements.

Fix 2. covers the problem that if the project which uses this library does not define HAVE_CONFIG_H the compile will abort stating "PACKACKE_VERSION not defined".

[Comment 4 Petric Frank 2012-08-08 12:16:39 UTC]

Created attachment 320690 [details, diff]
Hardcode inclusion of xlconfig.h

Required patch file for fix 2. above.