[Visual-devel] Re: building visual

[Thomas H. <Tho...@we...>]

On Friday 28 March 2003 14:53, you wrote:
Hi,
>
> I find your project interesting (Visual) and I decided to play around with
> it. Would you help me to get started with it?
I would, if I could. But when this reply took some time, this is because I 
first tried to update my system (SuSE 7.2) to gcc 3.2.
Sorry, but after having done this, I cannot reproduce any of your problems.
>
> I encountered following problems when I tried to build it.
> Here's what I did:
> $ ./configure
> Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
My autoconf doesn't seem to require this. I found that some software packages 
I built from source came with a script named ./depcomp.
On the first glance, this hell script may be idependent of the 
respective project. Please try to copy it from some other source package 
>
> Then I tried "make all" and it went further until it stopped when compiling
> allen_b.cc with following message:
>
> In file included from ../base.h:24,
>                  from ../plcdrv.h:26,
>
>             from allen_b.cc:26:
> ../persist.h:106: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `map' with no type
> ../persist.h:106: template-id `map<std::string, BaseObject*(*)()>' used as
> a declarator
> ../persist.h:106: parse error before `;' token
>
> I'm using GCC 3.2.
I fetched myself gcc 3.2 as it comes with SuSE's 8.1. As I do not want to 
overwrite/uninstall gcc-2.95 , I set up some symlinks to be able to switch 
between compiler versions changing a single symlink.
While doing this, I once got this error message, but I have not been able to 
reproduce it.
Please check version and headers of your libstdc++.
Mine is know:
filename: libstdc++.5.0.0.so
while the package was named: libstdc++-3.2-44.i586.rpm
and I can tell that visual compiled and executed ok (at first glance).
I only got warnings about a deprecated header file (iostream.h). 
As you did not report this, if you do not get it, your C++ header files may 
be out of date.
I did NOT try to compile with gcc 3.2 and older libdstdc++ headers.

> I tried to make changes in Makefile.am but then I wasn't able to even start
> building. make clean; ./configure; make all procedure always ended with
> that ./depcomp error.
Ok, when Makefile.am is more recent, make tries to remake the Makefile first. 
So if you want to do changes manually, change Makefile instead.

Good luck

Thomas