Re: [Visualpython-users] Unable to compile Visual 5 on linux

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

I don't know how to compile against Python 2.6. Here is my comment from 
the VPython wiki:

Indeed, the version of Visual has to have been built for a specific 
version of Python, and a mismatch cannot work. Just this week I worked a 
bit with Python 2.6 to see what the issues are going to be. There are 
some problems. The Boost libraries, which enhance C++, have to be built 
for a specific version of Python, and since there aren't yet available 
these binaries for 2.6, I built them from source. Similarly for numpy. 
Turns out that something has changed in these components, because 
there's now a type mismatch between numpy integers and Python integers 
(this is a simplified description). Moreover, for the new Visual about 
to be released, there's a problem with a native-mode version for the Mac 
because the Mac Python 2.6 has an IDLE that won't run!

Summary: There are various problems in the Python 2.6 world. But we'll 
be tracking them and looking for solutions. We would prefer to release 
the new Visual for Python 2.6, because the new Python builds a bridge 
between Python 2.5 and the coming Python 3.0, a version of Python that 
will actually break some existing programs. Python 2.6 offers tools to 
check on possible incompatibilities.

Bruce Sherwood

P.S. What level of Boost libraries did you try?

Siddhardh chandra wrote:
> I am getting the following error while trying to compile Visual 5 on my 
> linux machine.
> *
>  In file included from 
> /usr/include/boost/python/exception_translator.hpp:12,
>                   from ./python/cvisualmodule.cpp:11:
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:34: error: 
> expected nested-name-specifier before 'add_reference'
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:34: error: 
> expected ';' before '<' token
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp: In member 
> function 'bool boost::python::detail::translate_exception<ExceptionType, 
> Translate>::ope    rator()(const 
> boost::python::detail::exception_handler&, const boost::function    
> 0<void>&, typename boost::call_traits<Translate>::param_type) const':
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
> expected type-specifier before 'exception_cref'
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
> expected `)' before 'e'
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
> expected `{' before 'e'
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 'e' 
> was not declared in this scope
>  /usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
> expected ` ;' before ')' token
> 
> *Compiler - gcc 4.3.2
> Distro - Arch Linux(x86_64)
> Python 2.6.1