Re: [gtkmm] Error in compliing gtkmm program using GCC 3.4.2

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

>> > Strange everytime I make a new prj I have to alter
>> those files else it
>> > won't configure/compile.
>>
>> I expect that's true, but it has nothing to do with
>> regexxer, whose
>> project files were never generated by anjuta.
>>
>> > What do you think its the fault then.
>>
>> Like I said, maybe it needs some extra casts for the
>> new version of g++.
>
>> > Yeah I
>> > see there are some casting troubs, but isn't that
>> the fault he is
>> > looking for 'gtkmm-2.0' and don't find it?
>>
>> No, I don't think that this is the same compiler
>> error that you have seen
>> in that case.
>
> I realised that regexxer was looking for gtkmm-2.0. (I
> have gtkmm 2.2.12 in my system as well).
> But after I modified the configure.ac file to adapt
> it to gtkmm 2.4, I found that regexxer is not ready
> for gtkmm 2.4 at all (correct me if I am wrong), say
> it still uses "SigC::Object" that the new libsigc++
> doesnot like. Apart from that, I still got some cast
> errors, such as

Please forget about making it use a differnet gtkmm 2.4. Porting regexxer
to gtkmm-2.4 is not a sensible way to deal with a compile error.

> filebuffer.cc:799:   instantiated from here
> /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/refptr.h:199: error:
> invalid conversion from `const Gtk::TextMark*' to
> `Gtk::TextMark*'
>
> It is not easy to manually add extra cast to glibmm as
> you suggested, as that seems to happen everywhere.

OK. Please at least file a bug for it then.

> One strage thing is that the gtkmm 2.4 itself is
> compiled OK using gcc 3.4. (I "emerge" it from
> gentoo's  repository).

That's not so strange - errors in templates usually show up when the
templates are used.

Murray Cumming
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