Re: [Quickfix-developers] Linux Compile Problems - QF1.8.0

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Hi James,

>    I eventually gave up and upgraded one of our servers to Debian
> Sarge; I was able to get it to compile on my Sid workstation, which
> is running gcc/g++ 3.3.4-7, and Sarge installs with 3.3.4-3, so I
> figured it was worth a try.  After a few attempts, I was finally
> able to get it to compile with the STLPorts 4.6 package that comes
> with Sarge and the MySQL library we have installed.

I did not use any STLPorts 4.6 package to compile QF, at least I am not
aware of it. How is the package name in Debian? Maybe you should try it
without STLports?

> It fails two
> unit tests, however.  It passes all acceptance tests.

All unit and acceptance tests work fine.

>    I did not save out the compiler errors I got.  They weren't seg
> faults or out-of-memory errors.  One as I recall, came back as a
> floating point exception (?!).  I'm trying to compile it again on
> one of our other Woody boxes to see if I can get the error for you
> again.  So far, it's 39 minutes(!) into the compile of Session.cpp,
> using 384 MB of RAM.  Unbelievable.  Whenever the build dies, I'll
> send along the error messages.

OK, the g++-3.0 is quite slow...

> 
>    On a related note, how seriously is Linux *really* supported by
> the core QuickFIX group?  Having to install a whole new version of
> the operating system just to get QF to compile doesn't instill a
> lot of confidence.  I've got a *very* basic application I'm trying
> to get running with it, and I can't even get a SocketInitiator to
> instantiate properly.  The code segfaults when I try to do it.  I'm
> drafting a note on that problem separately.  Am I unique in having
> so much trouble with QF?  Most of the mailing list messages seem to
> be from Solaris or Windows developers coding in Java or .NET or VB.
> How many people are you aware of who are successfully using QF on
> Linux, coding in C/C++?

At least we do. We had some problems with the JNI part nearly two years
ago (we are using the Java API), but use QF in production for more than
a year now. So I guess you are quite unique here.

Please post more information, esp. which Debian package (version) you
use to compile QF.

Cheers, Jörg

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