installing CommonC++2-1.3.9 on arm board

[Roger Cortesi]

Hi there, I hope this is the appropriate forum.

I'm trying to install the GNU Commom C++ Library on an ARM
board to take advantage of the serial port rountines in it.

The arm aboard is running debian

I have to cross compile it on a cygwin system because the arm
is really slow at compiling.

I'm trying to use Commoncpp2-1.3.9

on the cygwin box I ran:

./configure --target=arm --prefix=/blaablaa blaa
make
make install

I copied the the *.h files to /usr/include/cc++
and the *.lo files to /usr/lib/cc++

Then I ran "ldconfig" to update the linker cache

Now on the ARM board I wrote a simple test c++ program

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#include <iostream>
#include <cc++/serial.h>
using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
   count << "Hello Roger, I'm testing the serial.h lib\n";
   TTYSession("/dev/ttyS0",1,5);
   return 0;
}
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I realize that my use of TTYSession is likely dorked up, but
if that was my only compile problem I would be ok.

So when I tried to compile it with g++ got the error that

in cc++/config.h "bits/atomicity.h" Not Found!

So some digging in config.h and I find on line 229
#define HAVE_BITS_ATOMIC_H 1
with a comment that says set to 1 one if you have this file.
I have set this to 0

and further down on line 262
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#define HAVE_GCC_CXX_BITS_ATOMIC 1
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I commented out this line and uncommented
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#undef HAVE_GCC_BITS_ATOMIC
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And then on line 1051
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#if defined(HAVE_GCC_BITS_ATOMIC) || defined(HAVE_GCC_CXX_BIT_ATOMIC)
#include <bits/atomicity.h>
#define HAVE_ATOMIC
#endif
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So this file should not be included any more

but now when I complile I get these errors:

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In file included from /usr/include/cc++/missing.h:42,
                from /usr/include/cc++/serial.h:47,
                from test.cpp:2:
/usr/include/cc++/config.h:817: conflicting types for `typedef int 
socklen_t'
/usr/include/unistd.h:247: previous declaration as `typedef __socklen_t 
socklen_t'
In file included from /usr/include/cc++/serial.h:51,
                from test.cpp:2:
/usr/include/cc++/thread.h:327: syntax error before `;'
test.cpp: In function `int main()':
test.cpp:9: implicit declaration of function `int TTYSession(...)'
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what is up with the conflicting typedef for socklen_t? should the one in 
unistd.h also be an int?

Any thoughts on that syntax error in thread.h line 327/

Here is the code from thread.h
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326    #ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_RWLOCK
327        pthread_RWLOCK_T _lock;
328    #else
329        Mutex mutex;
330    #endif
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sorry this is so long and thanks for any help/insight you can offer.

roger