#83 Compilation error in gcc / g++ 8.1

[Alex]

Dear Authors,

I would like to report that natest version (2.14) is not compiling using gcc / g++ 8.1.0 (Ubuntu 8.1.0-5ubuntu1~16.04)

Best regards,
Alex

[André Offringa]

Hi Alex, thanks for reporting -- could you post the compilation error? I think I can't reproduce your problem, or it might already be solved in the repository.

[Alex]

Hi,
The output from make is attached - its quite large. This problem does not occur if I swich to gcc/gpp 7 or earlier.

[André Offringa]

Hi Alex, thanks for that. It's not an issue in aoflagger ; your gtkmm and glibmm library installation are too old and don't support the latest gccs. Near the end of the log it says:

In file included from /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm.h:89,
                 from /opt/aoflagger/aoflagger-2.14.0/src/rfigui/progresswindow.h:8,
                 from /opt/aoflagger/aoflagger-2.14.0/src/rfigui/progresswindow.cpp:1:
/usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/threads.h: In member function ‘GPrivate* Glib::Threads::Private<T>::gobj()’:
/usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/threads.h:620:29: error: cannot convert ‘GPrivate’ {aka ‘_GPrivate’} to ‘GPrivate*’ {aka ‘_GPrivate*’} in return
   GPrivate* gobj() { return gobject_; }

If you install newer libraries, you'll also get rid of many of the warnings that you see.