Re: can't build translated makefile on snow leopard 10.6.5 w/ g++ 4.2.1 (complaint: g++: No such file or directory, although g++ is there!!)

[nyiotis]

On Dec 20, 8:04 pm, nyiotis <nikos.yio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> greetings!
>
> I am trying to build research code written in (templated) c++, size
> is
> approximately ~15K lines.
> the code was never been tested on a mac, not to mention snow leopard.
> I have the guarantee that it compiles + builds for win + linux.
> Project was a collaborative effort and unfortunately
> I am stuck without a makefile =P and with the ugly *.vcproj file.
>
> Note that I did not use an automated  ruby script I found for
> the translation of *.vcproj to makefile, since the script only
> handled
> the basics -> no pre/post-build steps or file-specific flags are
> included;
> instead, I translated from scratch to CMakelists and then converted to
> makefile.
> not that tricky as it sounds..
> So, assuming the problem is w/ the makefile, why do I have a clean
> makefile during the configuration/generation steps?
> Note that I choose to generate Unix makefile, not an xcode project.
>
> So I 've successfully translated the *.vcproj file into a makefile,
> fixed
> a few issues, linked to external libs, but the build w/ make fails and
> I get
>
> i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: g++: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/.../.../...cpp.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/.../.../all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> which, honestly, I don't remember seeing before -> complaining about g
> ++
> I mean and not missing file or dir. Note that g++ *is* in place, I can
> successfully compile other programs.
> I am stuck a few hours now and I suspect  (or better hope) that the
> problem is sth similar to the typical 32-bit/64-bit problem in mac
> ports.
> I tried w/ -arch i386 -m32  flags without any luck, so I 'd love to
> hear any thoughts, ideas..
>
> I guess there are parts of the code need to be re-written especially
> for OS X SL,
> but I cannot figure out the problem since the failing error is not
> descriptive enough
>
> When I build a xcodeproj (with g++ flag -arch i386), I get:
>
> lipo: can't figure out the architecture type of: /var/folders/9b/
> 9b2CWG5gHvCi5hawjO4o5E+++TI/-Tmp-//ccXHDX6t.out
> Command /Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 failed with exit code 1
>
> When I build a xcodeproj (with g++ flag -arch x86_64), I get:
>
> setenv LANG en_US.US-ASCII
> /Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -x c++ -arch x86_64 -fmessage-length=0 -
> pipe -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O0 -mdynamic-no-
> pic
> -DCMAKE_INTDIR="Debug" -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk -
> mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -gdwarf-2 -Wmost -Wno-four-char-constants -
> Wno-unknown-pragmas //... ...
> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: g++: No such file or directory
> Command /Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 failed with exit code 1
>
> all cryptic to me..
>
> Finally, although developing on a mac, I do not use Cocoa(/xcode)
> that uses otool to find any required shared libraries. So from the
> command line
> I don't have to care about otool and instead use the ldd
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> ps. note that I am building from command line without xcode
> and the -pedantic flag I use is not the reason of the failure

Okay, it turns that a setenv command in my .profile caused all this
trouble  (I am using bash) together w/ a system-specific command in
the
CMakeLists.  issue *almost* resolved