Re: Problems compiling ORBit

[Patrick Markiewicz <pfm2 andrew cmu edu>]

"Mullen, Patrick" wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to compile a program which requires gnome-libs.
> gnome-libs needs ORBit.  I'm having problems compiling ORBit.
> 
> The problem seems to be wchar_t is not defined.  The header
> of libIDL/IDL.h mentions wide character support may need to
> be included.  I searched /usr/include, and found that
> curses.h and ncurses.h has definitions for wchar_t, so although
> I did not think those were desired files I included them.  The
> situation did not change.  Then I added my own definition
> for wchar_t by adding the typedef from *curses.h in IDL.h, but
> I got an error saying the definition conflicts with an earlier
> definition provided from within the ORBit source tree.
> 
> Maybe I'm misinterpreting the error.  The relevant part of
> the compile process is located at the end of this message.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> ~Patrick
> 
> 
> Making all in backends
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90/src/orbit-idl-compil
> er/backends'
> Making all in c
> make[5]: Entering directory
> `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90/src/orbit-idl-compil
> er/backends/c'
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../..
> -I../../../../src/orbit-idl-compiler -
> I../../../..    -I../../../../src -I../../../.. -I../../../../src
> -I/usr/l
> ocal/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/include    -g -O2 -c
> orbit-idl-c-backend.c
> In file included from ../../../../src/orbit-idl-compiler/orbit-idl2.h:7,
>                  from orbit-idl-c-backend.h:4,
>                  from orbit-idl-c-backend.c:3:
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:164: parse error before `wchar_t'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:164: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
> union
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:167: parse error before `*'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:176: parse error before `wchar_t'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:176: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
> union
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:179: parse error before `*'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:545: field `idl_wide_string' has incomplete type
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:547: field `idl_wide_char' has incomplete type
> make[5]: *** [orbit-idl-c-backend.o] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90/src/orbit-idl-compile
> r/backends/c'
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90/src/orbit-idl-compile
> r/backends'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90/src/orbit-idl-compile
> r'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/spyjure/tmp/ORBit-0.4.90'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
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I think you want to include /usr/X11/include/Xlib.h.  I'm not very sure
on that however.
                         -PaddyM