Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Compile fails on windows

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Peter Harley <pj...@ca...> wrote:
> I've narrowed it down a bit. There were two issues occurring. One was that
> I'd put the directory of bison and flex in my path variable, and I don't
> think it liked the space in it. This was causing the hold up without any
> errors. I tried quoting it in my path but that didn't seem to help, so I
> reinstalled them to a path without any spaces! I should also mention that
> the thing on the wiki about bison.simple seems to no longer apply to the
> newest version of bison as that file seems to not exist.

I will look into this.

> Now there is another problem, that I'm sure I've seen before but can't for
> the life of me remember how to fix. Three parts fail, I've attached the log
> as its a bit big to include inline, the errors are all similar to:
>
> GraphMol\SmilesParse\bin\msvc-9.0express\release\link-static\threading-multi\lex.yysmiles.cpp(44)
> : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or
> directory
> ...failed compile-c-c++

That's very peculiar. There is a #define in the Jamfile
(-DYY_NO_UNISTD_H) that's intended to prevent this from happening.
>From  your logfile, it looks like this *is* defined, but the file
generated by flex no longer recognizes it. Can you please :
 - take a look at
GraphMol\SmilesParse\bin\msvc-9.0express\release\link-static\threading-multi\lex.yysmiles.cpp
to see if there is some kind of #ifdef structure around the include of
unistd.h
 - tell me which version of flex and bison you are using (and where
they came from).

Thanks,
-greg