[redland-dev] Windows/Cygwin build problems

[Richard H. McCullough]

Hi Lauri
You are right on both counts
1. WinZip inserted DOS end-of-lines.
2. There's a mismatch of arg. type info. on procedure calls.
The latest GNU C compiler, gcc 4.3.1, gives better diagnostics -- at a 
price.
It took about 7 hours to install on Windows Vista (including two new math.
packages which are prerequisites).

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauri Aalto" <laalto at gmail.com>
To: "Developers" <redland-dev at lists.librdf.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [redland-dev] Windows/Cygwin build problems


> Hi,
>
> building Redland on Cygwin works for me.
>
>> 1. testing variables
>> if variable
>> ---
>> endif
>> Cygwin complains about something near "if".
>>
>> Changing "if" to "ifdef" removes complaint.
>>
>> 2. setting variables
>> @variable = ...
>> Cygwin complains about something near "@"
>>
>> Changing "@" to "#", or deleting "@", removes complaint.
>
> These look like end-of-line encoding issues. Some Windows tool of
> yours probably converted them to CRLFs while the Cygwin tools still
> expect them to be LFs only and complain about the extra CR.
>
>> 3. C compilation errors in flex/bison source, for example
>> raptor_mkr_writer.c: At top level:
>> raptor_mkr_writer.c:802: error: parse error before '*' token
>> raptor_mkr_writer.c: In function `raptor_mkr_writer_get_feature':
>> raptor_mkr_writer.c:807: error: `feature' undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>> raptor_mkr_writer.c:809: error: `mkr_writer' undeclared (first use in 
>> this
>> function)
>>
>> I don't yet have a fix for problem 3.  Problem seems to be associated 
>> with
>> procedure calls where bison has matched a pattern.  It makes me wonder if
>> gcc
>> is complaining about procedure argument "declarations" embedded in 
>> procedure
>> call.
>
> Hard to say about this without the source. The error message looks
> like you have a "foo *bar" declaration but have not included the
> typedef for foo yet.
>
> Generally, flex and bison generated source builds fine on cygwin.
> fix-flex and fix-bison scripts are hacks. They work with the specific
> flex/bison versions and input files (raptor/rasqal lexers and parsers)
> but do not necessarily work with other flex/bison versions or other
> input files.
>
> Lauri
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