[mlabwrap-user] mlabraw.cpp (mlabwrap-1.1) gcc error -- please help!

mlabwrap-1.1 | Ubuntu 10.10 | Matlab 7.11.10

numpy is installed, matlab bin is on path.

So I'm trying # python setup.py install but this compile error (plus a bunch
of similar warnings) is driving me crazy :

running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.6
copying mlabwrap.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6
copying awmstools.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6
running build_ext
building 'mlabrawmodule' extension
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.6
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -D_V6_5_OR_LATER=1
-I/usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/extern/include
-I/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/include
-I/usr/include/python2.6 -c mlabraw.cpp -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/mlabraw.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for
Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
mlabraw.cpp: In function ‘PyArrayObject* mx2numeric(const mxArray*)’:
mlabraw.cpp:225: *error*: invalid conversion from ‘const mwSize*’ to ‘const
int*’
mlabraw.cpp: In function ‘mxArray* makeMxFromNumeric(const PyArrayObject*)’:
mlabraw.cpp:365: *error*: invalid conversion from ‘int*’ to ‘const mwSize*’
mlabraw.cpp:365: *error*:   initializing argument 2 of ‘mxArray*
mxCreateNumericArray(mwSize, const mwSize*, mxClassID, mxComplexity)’
mlabraw.cpp: In function ‘mxArray* numeric2mx(PyObject*)’:
mlabraw.cpp:509: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
‘char*’
mlabraw.cpp: In function ‘PyObject* mlabraw_open(PyObject*, PyObject*)’:
mlabraw.cpp:570: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
‘char*’
mlabraw.cpp: In function ‘PyObject* mlabraw_eval(PyObject*, PyObject*)’:
mlabraw.cpp:631: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
‘char*’
mlabraw.cpp:662: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
‘char*’
mlabraw.cpp: In function ‘void initmlabraw()’:
mlabraw.cpp:895: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
‘char*’
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

It seems gcc is not handling the mwSize type -> int type in C++ (According
to Mathworks they shold be equivalent, see
http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/apiref/mwsize.html) ... and I have no
idea how to fix this, it sounds like an easy thing to fix if you know C and
gcc well. Anyone? THANKS!

This is the line 225 in malbraw.cpp for further ref:

dims = mxGetDimensions(pArray);

dims is declared in the previous line:

const mwSize *dims;

mwSize is just an alias for int (#define mwSize int macro in line 145)
BUT mxGetDimensions() also returns a mwSize type, defined somewhere in
Matlab's C-interface code ( matrix.h ? ) and these two are not checking out
it seems!

Or perhaps the problem is not what I think it is. ANY HELP WILL BE
APPRECIATED!

-Jorge