Re: Great Moments in Mystifying Compiler Messages...

[Citizen Jimserac]

On Aug 16, 1:58 am, Riccardo Mottola <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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:Applicationshttp://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/
>
> On 2012-08-16 01:28:41 +0200 Citizen Jimserac <jimse...@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 towww.archive.orgis 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...
>
> [cut]
> 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

HA !!!!   Yes PRICE !  I had an older version.  So I went to the
sourceforge link and downloaded it and it compiled perfectly and works
well on Ubuntu 12.04.

This is a beautiful piece of software which I can use for various
image experimentations.

Thanks !