haxe.macro.MacroType issue

[Alexander Kuzmenko]

I've faced a problem using MacroType which i can't solve.

If my class extends with MacroType and has macro methods then compilation fails with message:

BaseExt.hx:7: lines 7-18 : Should extend by using a class

Main.hx:7: lines 7-17 : Defined in this class

Looks like MacroType is not getting invoked during 'macro' phase of building proccess

Here is a basic source code to reproduce: https://gist.github.com/RealyUniqueName/7263182

if i do like

class BaseExt #if !macro haxe.macro.MacroType<[Build.baseType()]> #end {

then this simple example works fine. 

But the real problem is that i want to automatically generate some static macro methods via @:autoBuild of `Base` class, but in this case i can't use `#if !macro` trick and that compilation error appears again.

[Juraj Kirchheim]

AFAIK you cannot generate any macro methods in @:build.

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[Alexander Kuzmenko]

This is sad :)

I've tryied and compiler complains about macro method is absent despite the fact that code completion shows me generated method :)

пятница, 1 ноября 2013 г., 14:35:16 UTC+4 пользователь back2dos написал:

[Juraj Kirchheim]

I think the problem is, that the macro's implementation has to exist
on the macro class in macro context. So you could try to use
reflection to inject an implementation. Marc Weber recently showed a
trick to evaluate expressions with macro-in-macro, so you could
evaluate the expression that returns the implementation.

I vaguely remember talk of some plans to actually support this.
Alternatively you could use using macros or something like that.

Regards,
Juraj