Re: [vile] Errors building vile on FreeBSD

[chrisisbd]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:10:18PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:45:57PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > I'm trying to build vile (ncurses based version) on a FreeBSD system.
> 
> is this the vanilla 9.5 source, or patched up-to-date (9.5j)?
> 
It's 'vanilla', just downloaded as-is from your FTP.

> >     In file included from tcap.h:38,
> >                      from curses.c:16:
> >     /usr/include/curses.h:236: conflicting types for `wchar_t'
> >     /usr/include/stddef.h:59: previous declaration of `wchar_t'
> >     *** Error code 1
> > 
> > 
> > Any ideas what may be wrong and/or how I can work around this?
> 
> offhand - the problem is that ncurses declares wchar_t for the X/Open
> interface if it's not declared in the usual places.   The system copy
> of ncurses is built using some hand-tweaked configuration which may
> have been accurate a couple of years ago.  But in the meantime FreeBSD
> added a more usable <wchar.h> file.  A quick check shows that they want
> to use int for wchar_t and ncurses is defaulting to unsigned long.
> 
> Looks like a workaround would be to define __wchar_t (untested).
> 
Where would I define that?

Thanks for the response.

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Chris Green (address@hidden)