cscintillalexilla

Switching to Lexilla

I am trying to switch my code to a new way of handling lexers in Scintilla.

This is what worked in previous versions of Scintilla, old ways:

scintilla_send_message(widget, SCI_SETLEXER, SCLEX_CPP, 0);

Since around version 4.4 I must do it new ways. From reading documentation I believe it is something like this:

ILexer5 *lexer = CreateLexer("cpp");
scintilla_send_message(widget, SCI_SETILEXER, 0, lexer);

But I am gettin ILexer5 is undefined and CreateLexer is undefined. I am tryng to find appropriate headers and static libs to add to my code and a compiler switch list. Please help.

My current GCC switches include this:

~/scintilla/bin/scintilla.a -DGTK -DSCI_LEXER -lstdc++ -I~/scintilla/include

Note I am using C not C++.

Solution

  • Lexilla.h is now in the lexilla repository.
    As of February it has #ifdef __cplusplus guards, so it appears to support C as well.

    If you still encounter issues, I'd suggest pasting the exact error message.