[Cpptool-develop] Linux build problems

[Sven R. <rei...@ma...>]

Folks,

the code submitted by Baptiste looks nice.. from the outside. 
Unfortunately, the extended use of the Boost library is more than gcc 2.96 
(the most widespread version of the GNU Compiler Collection for Linux) can 
handle. This is neither Boost's nor Baptiste's fault; gcc 2 implemented 
just an "approximation" of the standard library; in fact it was developed 
while the standard wasn't fixed yet.
So I moved to gcc 3. After figuring out how to run both versions on the 
same machine, this lead to an interesting other problem. This compiler 
tries to implement Standard C++ -- and is very picky about non-standard 
code, much more so than MSVC6, which Baptiste used for development. One 
example was in the blanker; the code looked something like
std::string str;
const char* _textBegin = str.begin();
What's wrong with that? Well, str.begin() is a string::iterator, and there 
is no standard way to convert that into a character pointer. However, this 
is easy to fix, since str.c_str() returns exactly what we need.
Other things that happens are throw-specifications being too general. This 
all is just to let you know that it will take a few days to have a running 
program under Linux. I will fix the necessary files and commit the changes 
once it runs. After that I'll go back to testing.
BTW, maybe my edition of Stroustrup is a bit outdated. Has <stdexception> 
been renamed to <stdexcept>? Both compilers seem to agree on that one.

Have a good night (even if the Europeans are about to get up :) )

Sven.

-- 
Sven Reichard
Dept. of Math. Sci.
University of Delaware
rei...@ma...