Re: Great Moments in Mystifying Compiler Messages...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

what software are you really trying to compile? Are you sure it is 
abndoned and that there hasn't been a newer release?
Please check:
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/

On 2012-08-16 01:28:41 +0200 Citizen Jimserac <jimserac@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Ah!  The plot thickens, I should have known....
>
> I found a number of older example GNUStep programs, some of them, like
> ToyViewer, with REALLY INTERESTING code in them.  These older
> programs, from around the years 2000 - 2005, almost never compile
> properly in modern GNUStep, for reasons such as Ivan has kindly
> explained here.  They can be found in various web hideaways, usually a
> trip to www.archive.org is sufficient to ferret them out.   Some of
> Pero's excellent example programs and his wonderful GNUSTEP Cookbook
> can be found out there too, they are quite good.
Actualy most old code compiles fine, often you just need to fix the 
header includes, since those were cleaned up.
Getting it to work is sometimes different, since many things changed.
I fixed and updated a lot of programs in the GAP project.

> I stumble on language issues too, for example I'm trying to figure out
> this one right now:
> In file included from MyDocument.m:22:
> ./PRCustTraceEdges.h:19:127: warning: declaration of 'enum
> medianForms' will not
>       be visible outside of this function [-Wvisibility]
>   ...:(BOOL)useZeroCross :(BOOL)enable1 :(enum medianForms)form1 :
> (int)size1...
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This and the following errors are of software I have written. I 
recognize it! Are you trying to compile PRICE perhaps? or is there 
software that copied its files? PRICE compiles on current gnustep and 
on the gnustep release in Debian as well as on mac 10.3&10.4.

Riccardo