Porting Unix Pro C to NT

I'm involved in development effort that requires porting reams of Oracle 8.0.5 Pro C code to Windows NT. Our most significant stumbling block so far has been an anomoly what the Pro C precompiler regards as legal syntax.

Under Unix we declare character string host variables as such:

              #define MAXLEN 32
              ...
              EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
              char HostCharString[MAXLEN];
              EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

The NT version of the preprocessor insists that no #defined symbols appear in the declare section, so we must indicate the array size with a literal value.

              EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
              char HostCharString[32];
              EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

Has anyone dealt with a this sort of problem before, without modifying source code? Seriously, modifying source code is NOT an option. We are considering writing a preprocessor for the precompiler that de-references macros that occur in declare sections. Does such a tool already exist somewhere?

Eric Janik

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