ncurses binding, configure types?

[willett]

This is a question rather than a bug.

I've written a binding for gpc Pascal to call ncurses.  It seems to  
work very well
on my own system, Mac OSX (powerpc-apple-darwin8).   I'd like to  
distribute this for other
gpc users, on a diversity of hosts.  However, I believe it will break  
on systems with
different size types, because I currently define the following as  
(the Pascal equivalents of):

 @cf_cv_typeof_chtype@     unsigned long
 @cf_cv_type_of_bool@       unsigned int

  @cf_cv_widec_shift@         8
  @cf_cv_shift_limit@           32
  @cf_cv_1UL@                   1UL


And chtype and bool, in particular, are used in structures.  Thus if  
my Pascal type doesn't match the
size of the c type in ncurses, the structure fields will not align.

I would like to make my pascal binding more portable, but my  
knowledge of configuration
files and c is rather limited, as is the time I can put into  
automating this process.  My candiate
solutions are:

Simplest:  I can give the user a couple of greps to run on ncurses.h,  
and instructions to edit
the Pascal types by hand to match the c types.

Harder:  Ada bindings apparently run a c program that includes  
ncurses.h and does stuff like:

  if (sizeof(chtype)==sizeof(int)) {
        if (sizeof(int)==sizeof(long))
          printf(fmt,"C_ULong");
        else
          printf(fmt,"C_UInt");
      }
      else if (sizeof(chtype)==sizeof(long)) {
        printf(fmt,"C_ULong");
      }
      else
        printf("Error\n");

Then runs a makefile on the output of this program and eventually  
creates an Ada source
file.  Doing this is beyond my time and competence.

Any suggestions?


Thanks,

Willett Kempton