[Gambas-user] make error while compiling...

Henri Girard girardhenri at ...67...
Tue May 27 21:59:34 CEST 2003


on redhat 9 :
gambas 057
./configure (no problem)
make
error 2
i haven't seen the exact text (sorry) something like  ..Qxxx _PTR error in
the gambas 057
but I think those who tried might have had same troubles ?
HG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henri Girard" <girardhenri at ...67...>
To: <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Printing


> Doesn't compile with redhat 9... Though configure works...
> did someone succeed ?
> Qxxx _PTR error in the gambas 057
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benoit Minisini" <gambas at ...2...>
> To: <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Printing
>
>
> Le Mardi 27 Mai 2003 08:58, Radoslav Dejanovic a écrit :
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:35 am, Ken Schrock wrote:
> > > >But perhaps we should wait for Gambas to get some maturity on Linux
> > > > platform first, before migrating to other platforms?
> > >
> > > You mean wait until Gambas is big and ugly like VB 4.0 before it is
> > > ported?
> >
> > No, I'd be happy if it could compile out of the box on my SuSE :))
> > This is the first thing why we should consider Gambas immature at this
> > point. While the language and underlying algorythms might be perfect,
the
> > fact that it doesn't compile out of the box is really bad thing. It
> > prevents language from being included with distributions (SuSE has only
> > some old release, perhaps because of building troubles?), and the rapid
> > development stage (as is happening now) will prevent everyone but
> > experienced programmer from giving it a try.
> >
> > So what we have here, as I see it, are two things: disability to compile
> > out of the box, which is a bad, bad thing, and fast development, which
is
> > just great. But these two do make Gambas immature. The first step should
> be
> > to try to solve building showstoppers.
>
> I agree with you.
>
> I develop on Mandrake 9.1, so it is easy for me to make gambas working on
> it.
>
> For the other systems, SuSE sent me a SuSE 8.1 for free, so I could check
> gambas on it, and I try to get RedHat when I can. I can't test on SuSE >
> 8.1.
>
> The big problem is that Linux evolves quickly, and that the different
> distributions do not hesitate to change many things between versions that
> breaks gambas compilation process.
>
> There is another problem in the dynamic library loader of Linux that seems
> to
> have problems with the way some libraries replaces symbols of other
> libraries. For example, KDE as its own malloc() implementation. As gambas
> loads QT and/or KDE by components, and not by using the linker, these bugs
> arise ! And there are very fews applications like gambas that deals with
qt
> and/or kde this way.
>
> Another problem is Trolltech that easily changes the internal of Qt at
each
> version without claiming it, and this breaks the gambas qt component.
>
> The last problem is the NVIDIA Open-GL driver that is buggy, because it
> cannot
> be loaded as a shared library without crashing.
>
> But don't worry, I think all these libraries and distributions will
> stabilize
> in the future.
>
> Free software is an adventure.
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
> mailto:gambas at ...1...
>
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