[Gambas-user] Error compiling the SVN version

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 4 février 2008, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> Today I've downloaded the last SVN version of Gambas and tried to
> compile it on the _same_ machine where I compiled with no errors Gambas
> 2.0. Reconf-all didn't give any error messagge, and the same was for
> ./configure. But when I gave the make command, the compilation stopped with
> these errors:
>
> -----------------------------------
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../share    -I../libltdl
> -DGAMBAS_PATH="\"/usr/local/bin\"" -pipe -Wall -Wno-unused-value
> -fvisibility=hidden -g -Os  -MT gbx3-gbx_c_string.o -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_c_string.Tpo" -c -o gbx3-gbx_c_string.o `test -f
> 'gbx_c_string.c' || echo './'`gbx_c_string.c; \
>         then mv -f ".deps/gbx3-gbx_c_string.Tpo"
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_c_string.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/gbx3-gbx_c_string.Tpo";
> exit 1; fi
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../share    -I../libltdl
> -DGAMBAS_PATH="\"/usr/local/bin\"" -pipe -Wall -Wno-unused-value
> -fvisibility=hidden -g -Os  -MT gbx3-gbx_component.o -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_component.Tpo" -c -o gbx3-gbx_component.o `test -f
> 'gbx_component.c' || echo './'`gbx_component.c; \
>         then mv -f ".deps/gbx3-gbx_component.Tpo"
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_component.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_component.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../share    -I../libltdl
> -DGAMBAS_PATH="\"/usr/local/bin\"" -pipe -Wall -Wno-unused-value
> -fvisibility=hidden -g -Os  -MT gbx3-gbx_extern.o -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_extern.Tpo" -c -o gbx3-gbx_extern.o `test -f
> 'gbx_extern.c' || echo './'`gbx_extern.c; \
>         then mv -f ".deps/gbx3-gbx_extern.Tpo"
> ".deps/gbx3-gbx_extern.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/gbx3-gbx_extern.Tpo"; exit
> 1; fi
> gbx_extern.c:30:17: error: ffi.h: Nessun file o directory
> gbx_extern.c:61: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
> before '*' token
> gbx_extern.c: In function 'EXTERN_call':
> gbx_extern.c:244: error: 'ffi_cif' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gbx_extern.c:244: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> gbx_extern.c:244: error: for each function it appears in.)
> gbx_extern.c:244: error: expected ';' before 'cif'
> gbx_extern.c:245: error: 'ffi_type' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gbx_extern.c:245: error: 'types' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gbx_extern.c:246: error: 'rtype' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gbx_extern.c:282: error: '_to_ffi_type' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> gbx_extern.c:338: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ffi_prep_cif'
> gbx_extern.c:338: error: 'cif' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gbx_extern.c:338: error: 'FFI_DEFAULT_ABI' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> gbx_extern.c:338: error: 'FFI_OK' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gbx_extern.c:341: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ffi_call'
> make[4]: *** [gbx3-gbx_extern.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/leo/Documenti/Software/Programmazione/Gambas2b/trunk/main/gbx'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/leo/Documenti/Software/Programmazione/Gambas2b/trunk/main'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/leo/Documenti/Software/Programmazione/Gambas2b/trunk/main'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/leo/Documenti/Software/Programmazione/Gambas2b/trunk'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ----------------------------------------------------------

You must install the libffi development packages.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini