Re: window.cc:950:117: error: invalid conversion from 'guint {aka unsigned int}' to 'GdkWindowHints'

[Markus Kolb <markus kolb+gtkmm tower-net de>]

Am 2015-02-26 02:42, schrieb YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List:
> Hello,
>
> I try to compile gtkmm-3.10.1:
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
> $ make
> make  all-recursive
[...]
> -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -Wall -g -O2 -MT
> window.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/window.Tpo -c window.cc  -fPIC -DPIC -o
> .libs/window.o
> window.cc: In static member function 'static void
> Gdk::Window::constrain_size(const Geometry&, guint, int, int, int&,
> int&)':
> window.cc:950:117: error: invalid conversion from 'guint {aka unsigned
> int}' to 'GdkWindowHints' [-fpermissive]
>    gdk_window_constrain_size(const_cast<GdkGeometry*>(&(geometry)),
> flags, width, height, &(new_width), &(new_height));
>
>                                               ^
> In file included from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdktestutils.h:26:0,
>                  from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdk.h:54,
>                  from ../gdkmm/color.h:36,
>                  from ../gdkmm/dragcontext.h:30,
>                  from ../gdkmm/window.h:31,
>                  from window.cc:9:
> /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdkwindow.h:1053:12: error:   initializing
> argument 2 of 'void gdk_window_constrain_size(GdkGeometry*,
> GdkWindowHints, gint, gint, gint*, gint*)' [-fpermissive]
>  void       gdk_window_constrain_size      (GdkGeometry    *geometry,
>             ^
[...]
> I am on Slackware 14.1 and I am using:
> -glibmm-2.38.2
> -gtk+3-3.14.9
> -gdk-pixbuf2-2.30.8
> -pango-1.36.8-i486
> -atk-2.14.0-i486
> -glib2-2.42.1-i486
>
> Do you see how to resolve this problem please?

If you want to use the version combination, you'll need a cast.
GdkWindowHints is an enum. You can cast the int to a GdkWindowHints at 
window.cc:950:117.
I don't know if there are some more problems after this.
Maybe try to use a newer gtkmm version.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/

3.14 should do it.