Re: [Swftools-common] swftools does not compile on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

[Chris Pugh]

On 20 May 2010 15:01, David Schissler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Compile swftools 0.9 doesn't work on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 64 bit.  It
> outputs the following error message.
>
> GFXOutputDev.cc: In function ‘void addGlobalFont(const char*)’:
> GFXOutputDev.cc:2507: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’
> GFXOutputDev.cc:2508: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’

Does your distro happen to have gcc 4.4 release installed?  If so, this may be
relevant:

     http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/porting_to.html

Check under the section 'Strict null-terminated sequence utilities'.

HTH.

Regards,


Chris.


> This is a long standing blocker bug that I have encountered for over a
> year.  Also someone else over at Redhat is having problems as well.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514884