Re: [Swig-user] syntax error in input

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Krzysztof Drewniak wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 19:41 -0800, Sri wrote:
>> You should check what is special about line 231 in curses.h.
>>
>> I dont know the specific issue here, but if you havent tried yet try using the "-E" option with swig to see what is having trouble with.
>>
>> I had posted reg a "error in input (3)" problem that turned to be a limitatio in 1.3.40, but was fixed in latest in SVN.  You may refer to that post & see if it helps.
>>
>> Goodluck.
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Krzysztof Drewniak <krz...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Krzysztof Drewniak <krz...@gm...>
>>> Subject: [Swig-user] syntax error in input
>>> To: swi...@li...
>>> Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 10:47 AM
>>> I am trying to develop common lisp
>>> bindings to ncurses. I am getting the
>>> following error
>>>
>>> /usr/include/curses.h:231: Error: Syntax error in
>>> input(1).
>>>
>>> Here is ncurses.i
>>>
>>> %module ncurses
>>> %{
>>> #include<curses.h>
>>> #include<panel.h>
>>> %}
>>>
>>> %include "/usr/include/curses.h"
>>> %include "/usr/include/panel.h"
>>>
>>> Any help?
>>>
>>>
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> swig -E simply dumps the file, and quits. swig -v 
> outputsLangSubDir: uffi
> Search paths:
>    ./
>    ./swig_lib/uffi/
>    /usr/share/swig1.3/uffi/
>    ./swig_lib/
>    /usr/share/swig1.3/
> Preprocessing...
> Starting language-specific parse...
> /usr/include/curses.h:231: Error: Syntax error in input(1).
> 
> I am running ubuntu's swig 1.1.36.
> Try SVN?

Indeed, try a later version, we try to fix syntax errors where not 
impossibly hard. You'll need to cut down the code until you can send us 
a testcase of the problem. Look around line 231 to see if you can see 
something unusual, especially non standard C/C++.

William