Re: [Chicken-users] Strange error when trying to build chicken-gtk2

[felix]

Dr William Bland wrote:
> Hello,
>         I'm trying to build chicken-gtk2 but I get quite a strange error.
> `csc -version` reports "Version 1, Build 0", and I'm using chicken-gtk2
> version 20021202-1.
>
> The error is:
>
> csc -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -C -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -C -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -C -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -C 
      ^ (missing "-C")
>  -I/usr/X11R6/include -C -I/usr/include/freetype2 -C -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -C 
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
>  -C -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -C -I/usr/include/libxml2
>  -Wl,--export-dynamic -L -lglade-2.0 -L -lgtk-x11-2.0 -L -lxml2 -L -lz -L 
-lgdk-x11-2.0
   ^ (missing "-C")
>  -L -latk-1.0 -L -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -L -lm -L -lpangoxft-1.0 -L -lpangox-1.0 -L 
> -lpango-1.0 -L -lgobject-2.0 -L
>  -lgmodule-2.0 -L -ldl -L -lglib-2.0 -s -o gobject.so gobject.scm

> csc: invalid option `-r'
> make: *** [gobject.so] Error 64
>
> which seems pretty odd to me as there is no '-r' in that line!
> I did manage to compile the examples that came with chicken, so
> (hopefully) it was installed correctly.
> Any assistance at this point would be really helpful.

All arguments to switches to "csc" must be separated with whitespace, otherwise
the whole thing is split into several options (like "-vku" -> "-v -k -u"), so
"-I/usr..." gets split into "-I -/ -u ...", when it should be "-I ...".
Not very helpful, I admit.
But in this case the options are actually for the C-compiler, so "-C" has to be
passed at the two positions marked.

I can't say much about the current state of the GTK2 port. In fact I'm not even
sure if it's still maintained.

Anyway, good luck!


cheers,
felix