Re: gnuradio-3.8 build fails with error: cannot convert const string {aka const std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>} to pmt::pmt_t {aka boost::shared_ptr<pmt::pmt_base>}

[Tom Crane]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Marcus Müller wrote:

> oops, wrong email account. Anyway, how **does** one get a recent
> Slackware64? The one that you find as official containers contains SWIG

Slackware64-current, which I am running has the most up to date versions of the 
packages and is at http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current 
or ones of its mirrors.  For a VM/BMM installation there are DVD and USB 
installation images here 
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/isolinux and here 
respectively 
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/usb-and-pxe-installers.

Once the installer is running it is pretty straightforward to do a full install 
(which includes boost, swig, gcc etc. etc.).  It just needs to be pointed to a 
download of the packages from 
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/.  I 
can't remember but it might be able to access them directly over the net via 
http://.

> 2, GCC 4.something and boost 1.54.

That does sound quite old.  Could you point me to its location?

Thanks
Tom.

> Best,
> Marcus
>
> On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 17:16 +0100, Marcus Müller wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > funky distro!
> > That API used to be string (of a serialized PMT) and now is PMT
> > directly. That happened somewhere around July.
> > Thus, this slightly looks like you still have some older header files
> > lying around? Or some outdated SWIG output that somehow ends up in
> > your
> > build?
> > Could you try in a clean container? I'm trying here locally, but
> > honestly, I've never used slackware before, and thus I need to learn
> > every packager tool in the process, and that's kind of a burden.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Marcus
> > On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 15:18 +0000, Tom Crane wrote:
> > > I am attempting to build the v.3.8 source under Slackware64 Linux
> > > and
> > > can't get past this and a few subsequent errors.
> > >
> > > Building from the git source results in the same failure.
> > >
> > > Build system details:
> > >   o gcc 9.2.0
> > >   o SWIG version 4.0.1
> > >   o Boost 1.72.0
> > >
> > > My build scripts and build logs are here
> > > https://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/tvdx/gr/build_problems/
> > >
> > > Please advise.
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > > Tom Crane
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