Re: [Plib-devel] Compile Problems with MSVC

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"Vallevand, Mark K" wrote:
> 
> Hmmm.  I regularly compile PLIB with MSVC v6.  I don't remember
> this problem.  It seems to compile right out of the box.  I'll
> check again at home tonight.  I have version 1.1.9.

IIRC 1.1.9 is quite old.

> > I have got a compile problem in file ssgSimpleState.cxx. The four
> > lines
> >
> >   specular_colour = src -> specular_colour ;
> >   emission_colour = src -> emission_colour ;
> >    ambient_colour = src ->  ambient_colour ;
> >    diffuse_colour = src ->  diffuse_colour ;
> >
> > dont compile under MSVC. The error
> > is
> > "=": The left operand has to be a L-Value.
> >
> > specular_colour etc are member-variables of
> > ssgSimpleState with type sgVec4.
> > When I change the type in file ssg.h
> > into SGfloat * then it compiles, but
> > I see this as a kludge.
> > However, I found no other solution :-(.

I have never tried to compile that stuff, but I guess that you'd either
need a sgCopyVec4 or make sure (through a cast) that you want to set the
pointer to specular_colour/... to the pointer to
src->specular_colour/...

Just a thought.

CU,
Christian