Using bitflags in static structs

[naim94a]

I need to develop a plugin for a program, which requires me to export a certain structure which contains a bitfield. When exporting the struct with bitflags I get the following error:

error[E0015]: calls in statics are limited to constant functions, tuple structs and tuple variants
  --> src/lib.rs:18:12
   |
18 |     flags: PluginFlags::A | PluginFlags::C,
   |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I would prefer to use this crate over plain constants... Is there a way to solve this?

code to reproduce:

use bitflags::bitflags; // 1.2.1

bitflags!{
    pub struct PluginFlags: u32 {
        const None = 0;
        const A = 0x0001;
        const B = 0x0002;
        const C = 0x0004;
    }
}

pub struct Plugin {
    flags: PluginFlags,
}

#[no_mangle]
static DATA_EXPORT: Plugin = Plugin {
    flags: PluginFlags::A | PluginFlags::C,
};

[naim94a]

I'm guessing this issue is blocked on rust-lang/rfcs#2632...

[Anders429]

For anyone who ended up on this issue, the "hacky" solution provided here works.

[KodrAus]

Let's track support for const traits that will let bit operators to work on flags types over in #223.

The sort of thing we need to be able to do is:

impl const BitOr for $BitFlags {
    ..
}

which is gated by #![feature(const_trait_impl)].