Re: Missing .h file?

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

    Hi Peter,
      
      the problem seems to be this:
      
      The GNU APL build system is based on autoconf/automake which is
      the
      standard for GNU projects and many others.
      
      In this build system the src directory contains all possible
      source files.
      The build system also supports a number of different build
      targets; the
      most common being the GNU APL interpreter binaries, other less
      frequently
      used ones are libapl, the GNU APL python language interface, the 
    GNU APL
        erlang language interface, and so on.
        
        The ./configure script allows the user to choose that target
        that should be
        built and does this by selecting only a subset of all source
        files in the src
        directory. In particular if you build the interpreter then the
        file
        src/python_apl.cc is NOT one of the source files selected
        and the
        missing Python.h is not needed (and a lack of it causes
        no harm).
        
        Now, the Apple build system seems to work differently by trying
        to pick
        all source files in the src directory as opoosed to only those
        needed for
        the desired target. This is wrong, but ./configure cannot do
        anything
        about it.
        
        The easy fix for this is to simply remove the .cc files that
        complain before
        initializing the Apple build system. Note that there are also
        files that are not
        needed about which the build will not complain. The do not harm
        but make
        the build target bigger than needed (keyword: dead code).
        
        Of course every 'svn up' will restore the files so it may make
        sense to write
        a small script that removes the files.
        
        Best Regards,
        Jürgen

On 9/28/22 1:13 AM, Peter Teeson wrote:

In Terminal:

cd GNUapl 

svn co http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk > svn-log 2>&1

Then was trying to see about building it as an Xcode command line project.

Added trunk folder to project, including sub-folders.

Did Build and got this message from the preprocessing.

Lexical or Preprocessor Issue

….GNUapl/trunk/src/python_apl.cc:3:10: 'Python.h' file not found

Did a multi-file search of trunk and sub-folders and did not find it.

Please check if the .h file is missing from svn checkout http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk

Thanks

Peter