[sword-devel] Build fail under GCC-3.4.2

[Krzysztof Bialas]

Hi Barry,
I suppose that the problem is not just with "any gcc3". I've just tried 
todays SVN version on CygWin (gcc 3.3.3 cygwin special) and sword library 
and utilities compile smoothly.
Christopher
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Drake" <b.drake w ntlworld.com>
To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel w crosswire.org>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: [sword-devel] Build fail under GCC-3.4.2


> Hi there ........
>
> Barry Drake wrote:
>
>> Frogive me if I'm asking a stupid question, but I don't seem to get 
>> anything to build that makes use of SWmodule under any of the Mingwin 
>> compilers.  The build stops with an error  at the line in SWDisp.h: - 
>> 'class SWDLLEXPORT SWDisplay : public SWObject {' and gives the error the 
>> message: 'ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'SWDisplay with no type'.
>
>
>
> I'm beginning to get the answer to my own question here.  Apparently there 
> were some changes in the pre-processor following GCC 2.9.6 or there 
> abouts.  This is a well reported problem and occurs with 3.4.2 (which I am 
> using) on all platforms.  It seems to me that currently, SWmodule is 
> broken for any version of GCC of 3 and above.
>
> God bless,
> Barry
>
> -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed 
> church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for our church 
> homepages).
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