Re: [Lynx-dev] SLang build fails on VMS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:39:51PM -0800, Terrence Branscombe wrote:
> Using the Feb 4, 2005 release of LYnx 2.8.5 I tried building with the 
> SLang library version 2.0.5 on OpenVMS 7.3-2 (Alpha).

I recall building lynx with slang 1.4.9 on OpenVMS around 2.8.5, but
the display didn't work properly (some problem with slang not using the
correct screensize).  slang 2.x of course makes incompatible changes to
the interfaces.

> 
> I looked in lynx-dev archive and found a suggested patch for the SLang 
> library, but SLang has since been modified by its author (John Davis) so 
> the suggested changes in lynx-dev no longer appeared to apply (to a 
> non-programmer, at least).  Is there a further patch of SLang required 
> in order to build cleanly on VMS?  Thanks,

The current development code might work with slang 2.x on VMS (assuming
that slang itself has been updated to work with VMS).
 
> Terry
> 
> 
> $ @build-slang ucx --with-ssl
> ...
> $ cc LYStrings
> 
>         expand_substring(buf, parse + 1, parse + len - 1, buf + 
> sizeof(buf) - 1);
> ........^
> %CC-E-TOOFEWARGS, In this statement, "SLexpand_escaped_string" expects 4 
> arguments, but 3 are supplied.
> at line number 1038 in file DISK$PGM:[KITS.MISC.LYNX.SRC]LYSTRINGS.C;1
> 
>         ok = expand_substring(dst, src + 1, src + strlen(src) - 1, final);
> .............^
> %CC-E-TOOFEWARGS, In this statement, "SLexpand_escaped_string" expects 4 
> arguments, but 3 are supplied.
> at line number 1057 in file DISK$PGM:[KITS.MISC.LYNX.SRC]LYSTRINGS.C;1
> 
>                 expand_substring(buf, str, str + HTMIN(len, 28), buf + 
> sizeof(buf) - 1);
> ................^
> %CC-E-TOOFEWARGS, In this statement, "SLexpand_escaped_string" expects 4 
> arguments, but 3 are supplied.
> at line number 1105 in file DISK$PGM:[KITS.MISC.LYNX.SRC]LYSTRINGS.C;1
> 
>         if (SLang_Error) return -1;
> ............^
> %CC-E-UNDECLARED, In this statement, "SLang_Error" is not declared.
> at line number 1240 in file DISK$PGM:[KITS.MISC.LYNX.SRC]LYSTRINGS.C;1
> 
>     if (SLang_Error)
> ........^
> %CC-E-UNDECLARED, In this statement, "SLang_Error" is not declared.
> at line number 1377 in file DISK$PGM:[KITS.MISC.LYNX.SRC]LYSTRINGS.C;1
> $ CLEANUP:
> Default directory:
>   DISK$PGM:[KITS.MISC.LYNX]
> $
> 
> 
> 
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