Re: Problems building 1.0.3 on win32

[Federico Montesino Pouzols]

        Yes, current releases do not compile on cygwin since mingw32
support was added. It must be mostly a few inconsistent #ifdefs. It
will be fixed. Note that the latest release is 1.0.5, you may have to
access the ftp server through ftp instead of http.

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:25:03PM -0800, Scott Stanton wrote:
> I've just downloaded the 1.0.3 tarball, and I'm trying to build it with
> gcc3.2 under cygwin with little success.  I'm just trying to do a simple
> configure/build and I get errors like the following:
> 
> thread.cpp:357: invalid use of undefined type `struct ost::PosixThread'
> ../include/cc++/thread.h:1055: forward declaration of `struct
> ost::PosixThread'
> thread.cpp:357: assignment (not initialization) in declaration
> thread.cpp:358: invalid use of undefined type `struct ost::PosixThread'
> ../include/cc++/thread.h:1055: forward declaration of `struct
> ost::PosixThread'
> thread.cpp: In static member function `static void
>    ost::ThreadImpl::PosixThreadSigHandler(int)':
> thread.cpp:1202: cannot dynamic_cast `t' (of type `class ost::Thread*')
> to type
>    `struct ost::PosixThread*' (target is not pointer or reference to
> complete type)
> 
> In looking at the header files, there seems to be a mess of #ifdefs
> around cygwin/mingw32 and win32 that leave things in a confused state.  
> 
> Has anyone been able to make this work?   What configure flags have
> people used successfully under cygwin?
> 
> --Scott
> 
> 
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