RE: Compile Problems with Harold's Server...

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I just downloaded the snapshot which supposed to have Harold patches
applied, I am geting the following errors.  With the snapshot I had
diference namespace errors.

In file included from /usr/include/windef.h:145,
                 from /usr/include/windows.h:96,
                 from winms.h:44,
                 from win.h:166,
                 from InitInput.c:27:
/usr/include/winnt.h:2487: warning: ANSI C doesn't support unnamed
structs/union
s
In file included from /usr/include/windows.h:100,
                 from winms.h:44,
                 from win.h:166,
                 from InitInput.c:27:
/usr/include/winbase.h:955: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:956: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:957: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1001: parse error before `LPBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1002: parse error before `LPBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1212: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1226: parse error before `LPBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1227: parse error before `LPBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1229: parse error before `LPBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1230: parse error before `LPBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1245: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1256: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1395: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1396: parse error before `PBOOL'
/usr/include/winbase.h:1422: parse error before `PBOOL'
In file included from /usr/include/windows.h:105,
                 from winms.h:44,
                 from win.h:166,
                 from InitInput.c:27:
/usr/include/winuser.h:2659: parse error before `PBOOL'
In file included from /usr/include/windows.h:108,
                 from winms.h:44,
                 from win.h:166,
                 from InitInput.c:27:
/usr/include/winnls.h:547: parse error before `LPBOOL'
make[1]: *** [InitInput.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/cygdrive/c/shadowfb/temp/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwi
n'
make: *** [hw/xwin] Error 2

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Compile Problems with Harold's Server...
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >Harold
> >
> >> Is there no other way to fix this problem then patching
> >> /usr/include/w32api?
> >
> >There is no other way.
> >
> >The conflicting symbols are a mix of #defines and typdefs; 
> we can handle the
> >#defines by #undefing them after we've included the w32api 
> headers; however,
> >the only thing we can do for typedefs is to prevent them 
> from being declared
> >in the first place.
> >
> >In total there are about 8 changes to the w32api headers.
> >
> >Earnie Boyd has already committed the patches to Cygwin's 
> CVS tree; these
> >patches will be in the next Cygwin release.
> >
> >For the changelog noting that the patches were applied, look 
> at the very end
> >of the following page:
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/winsup-changelog-20010325-20010331
> 
> Right.  That means that the headers should also be available 
> in that particular
> snapshot, too.
> 
> cgf
>