Re: [Rdkit-devel] "symbol(s) not found" on Mac OS X 10.7.3

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

Hi James,

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:24 AM, James Swetnam <jsw...@gm...> wrote:
> Ironically, I just ran into this same issue with our internal gcc build
> today.  I've attached a patch that removes the platform-specific -O0 flag
> for Dict.cpp and replaces the force_types() method with the following, which
> is somewhat more C++ standard-compliant and portable:
>
> #define ANY_FORCE(T) template T Dict::fromany<T>(const boost::any& arg)
> const; \
>                      template boost::any Dict::toany<T>(T arg) const;
>   ANY_FORCE(int);
>   ANY_FORCE(bool);
>   ANY_FORCE(unsigned int);
>   ANY_FORCE(double);
>   ANY_FORCE(std::string);
>   ANY_FORCE(std::vector<int>);
>   ANY_FORCE(std::vector<unsigned int>);
> ...
> etc.
>
> You can read up on what's going on here (it's not pretty, nothing with c++
> template programming is) here:
> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/separate-template-fn-defn-from-decl.html
>
> Feel free to use the patch or not.  Thanks!

Thanks for the patch!

I checked the changes in this morning after testing on my windows
build machine and an up-to-date version of linux. I'm guessing this
isn't going to cause any problems with older gcc versions, but I'll
verify that in the next couple days.

-greg