Cppia compile fails when declaring a variable of type cpp.cppia.Module in class

[AlexRamallo]

Found a weird issue when using cppia. The following Haxe code for a Cppia host fails during the C++ compilation step:

import cpp.cppia.Module;

class Host {
    public static var myLoadedModule:Module = null;
    
    public static function main(){
        var src = sys.io.File.getContent('./script.cppia');
        myLoadedModule = Module.fromString(src);
        myLoadedModule.boot();
        myLoadedModule.run();
    }
}

The error I get is this:

... Error: boot.cpp include\Host.h(55): error C2039: 'CppiaLoadedModule': is not a member of 'hx' ...

The error can be avoided by removing the myLoadedModule declaration from the class, and declaring it in the scope of main:

import cpp.cppia.Module;

class Host {
    //public static var myLoadedModule:Module = null;
    
    public static function main(){
        var src = sys.io.File.getContent('./script.cppia');
        var myLoadedModule = Module.fromString(src);
        myLoadedModule.boot();
        myLoadedModule.run();
    }
}

The error also happens if myLoadedModule is declared non-static.

I tested it on Windows 10 and Ubuntu using haxe version 3.4.4 and hxcpp versions 4.0.8 and 4.0.19

Here is the HXML file I used to build it:

-cp src/host
-main Host.hx
-D scriptable
-cpp out

[AlexRamallo]

Also, a workaround is to declare the member variable as Dynamic

[hughsando]

Yeah, it is defined as an external class - I will need to do a little work to make this cppia safe. Dynamic seems like a good work-around. You could even make it Dynamic on cppia only, and Module on cpp.