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[Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Jean He <wea...@gm...>]

Hi all:

I download MinGW with g++ 4.4, and I can't wait to try it.

I write a sample cpp like this:
#include <regex>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
const regex r("[1-9]*x[2-9]+");
 for (string s; getline(cin, s); )
{
 cout << (regex_match(s, r) ? "Yes" : "No") << endl;
}

        return 0;
}

After I build it, some errors are thrown, I don't know if I miss some
options or...

D:\MinGW_Env\Code>g++ -std=c++0x regex.cpp -o regex.exe
In file included from
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/bits/postypes.h:42,
                 from
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/bits/char_traits.h:42,
                 from
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/string:42,
                 from
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/bitset:49,
                 from
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/regex:43,
                 from regex.cpp:1:
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159: error:
'::swprintf' has not been declared
d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:166: error:
'::vswprintf' has not been declared

Can you please help me figure out what's wrong in above process, thank you
very much in advance.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2010-03-17 14:03Z, Jean He wrote:
> 
> D:\MinGW_Env\Code>g++ -std=c++0x regex.cpp -o regex.exe
[...]
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159: error:
> '::swprintf' has not been declared

This search:
  http://www.google.com/search?q="'::swprintf' has not been declared"
suggests that '-std=c++0x' is incompatible with swprintf().

Re: [Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Douglas A. <kb...@gm...>]

If you just want to test your installation, I would suggest you start
with something simpler.

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char**argv) {
    // Prints welcome message...
    std::cout << "Welcome ..." << std::endl;

    // Prints arguments...
    //if (argc > 1) {
    //    std::cout << std::endl << "Arguments:" << std::endl;
    //    for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
    //        std::cout << i << ": " << argv[i] << std::endl;
    //    }
    //}

    return 0;
}


On 3/17/10, Greg Chicares <gch...@sb...> wrote:
> On 2010-03-17 14:03Z, Jean He wrote:
>  >
>  > D:\MinGW_Env\Code>g++ -std=c++0x regex.cpp -o regex.exe
>
> [...]
>
> > d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159: error:
>  > '::swprintf' has not been declared
>
>
> This search:
>   http://www.google.com/search?q="'::swprintf' has not been declared"
>  suggests that '-std=c++0x' is incompatible with swprintf().
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Re: [Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Andy R. <min...@an...>]

Jean He wrote:
> 
> After I build it, some errors are thrown, I don't know if I miss some 
> options or...
> 
>
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159: error: 
> '::swprintf' has not been declared
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:166: error: 
> '::vswprintf' has not been declared

FWIW I came across this error some time back and fortunately kept a 
record of the fix. I thought it had gone in gcc v4, so maybe this has 
crept back in?

Here's the explanation/solution I found:

I had compiler errors in gcc v3.4.5 with the -std=c++0x option
switched on.

 From Mark Cave-Ayland on the MinGW list:

----------------------------------------
C:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/c++/3.4.5/cwchar:161:error: 
`::swprintf' has not been declared
C:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/c++/3.4.5/cwchar:168:error: 
`::vswprintf' has not been declared

After a bit of fiddling, I found that I was able to get my test program
above to compile in ANSI mode by loading include/c++/3.4.5/cwchar and
commenting out the lines containing "using ::swprintf" and "using
::vswprintf".

I think that this related to the fact that the swprintf() and vswprintf()
functions in wchar.h are surrounded by an "#ifndef __STRICT_ANSI__"
declaration; however I am not sure whether or not surrounding the "using"
lines mentioned above with the same declaration is the correct thing to do
in C++.
----------------------------------------

I placed #ifndef __STRICT_ANSI__ switches around the two offending 
declarations in include/c++/3.4.5/cwchar and that resolved it.

So, of course you have a different version number, therefore a different 
path to the cwchar header.

Andy

Re: [Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Friday 19 March 2010 09:12:07 Andy Rushton wrote:
> > d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159
> >: error: '::swprintf' has not been declared
> > d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:166
> >: error: '::vswprintf' has not been declared
>
> FWIW I came across this error some time back and fortunately kept
> a record of the fix. I thought it had gone in gcc v4, so maybe
> this has crept back in?

No.  The issue arose when Danny Smith added, (prematurely[*] IMHO), 
guards in mingwrt-3.15+ to forbid references in C99 conforming code 
to this pair of functions, because their Microsoft implementations 
do not conform to the standard.

[*] As a GCC developer, Danny should have known better.  G++'s cwchar 
header gratuitously refers to both of those functions, in any source 
file which includes it, regardless of whether the user's code refers 
to them, or not.  This was not fixed in GCC, until the recent 
release of GCC-4.5.0.

For further follow-up, see:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2373234&group_id=2435&atid=102435

Notice that two plausible workarounds were proposed, but there was 
never any consensus reached, about applying either patch.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

Re: [Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Douglas A. <kb...@gm...>]

I like to use SciTE.exe sometimes and here is the output of what you have:

>g++ -pedantic -Os regex.cc -o regex
regex.cc:1:17: regex: No such file or directory
regex.cc: In function `int main()':
regex.cc:8: error: `regex' does not name a type
regex.cc:11: error: `r' was not declared in this scope
regex.cc:11: error: `regex_match' was not declared in this scope
>Exit code: 1

That is probably due to my installation still being C:\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.5
I looked for that header in there and is not present. You must have it
then in 4.4?

On 3/17/10, Jean He <wea...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I download MinGW with g++ 4.4, and I can't wait to try it.
>
> I write a sample cpp like this:
> #include <regex>
> #include <string>
> #include <iostream>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
>  const regex r("[1-9]*x[2-9]+");
>
>  for (string s; getline(cin, s); )
>  {
>  cout << (regex_match(s, r) ? "Yes" : "No") << endl;
>  }
>
>         return 0;
> }
>
> After I build it, some errors are thrown, I don't know if I miss some
> options or...
>
> D:\MinGW_Env\Code>g++ -std=c++0x regex.cpp -o regex.exe
> In file included from
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/bits/postypes.h:42,
>                  from
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/bits/char_traits.h:42,
>                   from
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/string:42,
>                  from
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/bitset:49,
>                  from
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/regex:43,
>                  from regex.cpp:1:
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159:
> error: '::swprintf' has not been declared
> d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:166:
> error: '::vswprintf' has not been declared
>
> Can you please help me figure out what's wrong in above process, thank you
> very much in advance.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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Re: [Mingw-users] [regex]: Why it's failed to build

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 14:03:51 Jean He wrote:
> I download MinGW with g++ 4.4, and I can't wait to try it.

Any particular reason why you chose 4.4 rather than the recently 
released 4.5?  (Both have been classified as "experimental").

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 14:33:11 Greg Chicares replied:
> > D:\MinGW_Env\Code>g++ -std=c++0x regex.cpp -o regex.exe
> [...]
> > d:\mingw_env\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/c++/cwchar:159
> >: error: '::swprintf' has not been declared
>
> This search:
>   http://www.google.com/search?q="'::swprintf' has not been
> declared" suggests that '-std=c++0x' is incompatible with
> swprintf().

To be strictly accurate, it's Microsoft's implementations of 
[v]swprintf() which are not compatible with *any* option which 
requires ANSI standards compliance, (of which -std=c++0x is just one 
example).  This is a known defect, which has been present since 
Danny Smith added guards to reject references to these functions in 
standards conforming code (from mingwrt-3.15 IIRC), yet GCC 
continued to gratuitously assumed them to be declared for any C++ 
code including the cwchar header, (either explicitly or implicitly), 
up until the release of gcc-4.5.0.

This bug will disappear, if you upgrade to the latest release, (which 
for the time being, you *must* install in C:\MinGW, (or at the very 
least ensure that it is supported by mingwrt and w32api headers 
installed there)).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.