Re: [Swftools-common] Compiling SWFTools by using an alternative compiler

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 10, 2012, at 12:29, Pablo Beltran wrote:

> I'm trying to compile SWFTools on Linux by using an alternative compiler to 
> gcc and I got the following message:
> 
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-none
> checking host system type... mips-unknown-elf
> checking for mips-unknown-elf-gcc... mips-unknown-elf-gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether mips-unknown-elf-gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for mips-unknown-elf-gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether mips-unknown-elf-g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking whether gcc supports lazy variable declaration... no
> ***************************************************
> * Your gcc is too old to compile this!
> * 
> * The last version compileable by this compiler is 
> * swftools 0.7.0, which you can download from 
> * http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.7.0.tar.gz 
> * .
> * Newer versions require at least gcc 3.0.0 
> ***************************************************
> 
> I've read in this post that any alternative to gcc results in the error above 
> (for clang on Mac OS X Lion):
> 
> "Of course the error message is wrong; swftools is just under the mistaken 
> impression that every compiler one might use to compile it is gcc. In this 
> case, we're using clang; clang's version number happens to be lower than 
> gcc's, though it is just as (or more) capable than gcc."
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/32732

And then in the next comment I said:

"Actually, that's the problem we had in another port, but with swftools, I see 
they just wrote their test wrong. Fixed in r88456."

http://trac.macports.org/changeset/88456