Re: [Plib-users] need help compiling plib

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Sebastian Ude wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, ma...@ne... (Mathew Kohel) wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:22:14 -0500
> > To: <pli...@li...>
> > From: ma...@ne... (Mathew Kohel)
> > Subject: [Plib-users] need help compiling plib
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I download the most recent stable version of plib and tried to compiled
> > it win mandrake 8.1.
> >
> > I received the following error:
> >
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/plib-1.4.2/src/net'
> > c++ -DPACKAGE=\"plib\" -DVERSION=\"1.4.2\" -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_LIBGL=1
> > -DH
> > AVE_LIBGLU=1 -DHAVE_LIBGLUT=1 -DHAVE_GL_GL_H=1 -DHAVE_GL_GLU_H=1
> > -DLINUX_JOY
> > STICK_IS_PRESENT=1 -DGLUT_IS_PRESENT=1  -I. -I.  -I../../src/util
> > -I/usr/lo
> > cal/include
> >  -g -O2 -O6 -Wall -c netSocket.cxx
> > netSocket.cxx: In method `int netSocket::accept (netAddress *)':
> > netSocket.cxx:218: cannot convert `int *' to `socklen_t *' for argument
> > `3' to `accept (int, sockaddr *, socklen_t *)'
> > netSocket.cxx: In method `int netSocket::recvfrom (void *, int, int,
> > netAddress *)':
> > netSocket.cxx:256: cannot convert `int *' to `socklen_t *' for argument
> > `6' to `recvfrom (int, void *, unsigned int, int, sockaddr *, socklen_t
> > *)'
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Where shoud soklen_t be defined?  I assuming I just need to include an
> > another .h file, just am not sure which one.
> 
> The source file should include "sys/types.h", but it doesn't. (To the
> original author: typedef'ing "socklen_t" to be "int" is not a solution.

There are problems with some OS's (I think IRIX is one of them) with those
things.  I don't think older Unixen define socklen_t - so you have to use
an 'int'.

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