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by **W Crowsh** » Wed, 29 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Has anybody successfully compiled Mixmaster 2.0.4 an LinuxPPC? I am
currently trying to do so, but have encountered several problems. It will
presumably compile for linux.

Any tips?

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by **Rich Laffer** » Thu, 30 Sep 1999 04:00:00

> Has anybody successfully compiled Mixmaster 2.0.4 an LinuxPPC? I am
> currently trying to do so, but have encountered several problems. It will
> presumably compile for linux.

> Any tips?

Tip #1: Tell us what the problems *are* :-)

-r.

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Concordia University, Montreal, QC

by **wcrows..** » Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00

>> Has anybody successfully compiled Mixmaster 2.0.4 an LinuxPPC? I am
>> currently trying to do so, but have encountered several problems. It
will
>> presumably compile for linux.

>> Any tips?
> Tip #1: Tell us what the problems *are* :-)
> -r.

That's cool. OK. I try to install mixmaster using the install script,
which asks me several questions and then goes onto compile. The problem
happens during the compile when it attempts to make the main.o object
file.
The command to compile main.c is
gcc - main.c -o main.o -Izlib -Iprce -Xbsafe -DUSE_ZLIB -DUSE_RX
-DUSE_BSAFE -g -Wall -static -DSPOOL='"home/myaccount/Mix"'

Compile stops and I get the following error message:

main.c:206: initializer element is not constant
gmake: *** [main.o] Error 1

Now my interpretation of this error message says to look at a problem in
main.c at line 206. The line reads:

FILE *errlog = stderr;

Strictly speaking, this should not be an error. It is a correct
assignment.

Does this provide anymore clues?

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by **Wim Lew** » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00

>Compile stops and I get the following error message:

>main.c:206: initializer element is not constant
>gmake: *** [main.o] Error 1

>Now my interpretation of this error message says to look at a problem in
>main.c at line 206. The line reads:

>FILE *errlog = stderr;

>Strictly speaking, this should not be an error. It is a correct
>assignment.

I ran into this when recompiling a few of my own utilities for my pmac.
I just moved the assignment to the beginning of main(). (If you have c++
constructors you might be screwed, though --- but mixmaster is straight C
IIRC.)

I don't know, offhand, whether the relevant standard (ansi? posix?) states
that the stdio streams have to be compile-time constants. Traditionally
stderr is &_iob[2] or something like that. Looking in my headers it's
declared as an extern FILE * now. I suspect it's a glibc thing, not a
ppc thing.

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by **W. Crowsh** » Wed, 06 Oct 1999 04:00:00

>>> Has anybody successfully compiled Mixmaster 2.0.4 an LinuxPPC? I am
>>> currently trying to do so, but have encountered several problems. It
>will
>>> presumably compile for linux.

>>> Any tips?

This is a floowup, I got the errlog = stderr to compile, but now I am
encountering another problem. Sorry to have to walk you throug the whole
compile, but I am new to linux programming (which I thought would be
easier -- but, ironically, I find mac programming easier, or at least the
MW C compiler easier to understand.

Anyway, when it comes to compiling the file bsafeey.c with this command:
gcc -ggdb -I. -I../ssleay/include -c bsafeeay.c
I get a number of complaints from the assembler, about two error messages
that look like this
/tmp/ccPFvjCD.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccPFvjCD.s: Error: Bad expression
/tmp/ccPFvjCD.s: Error: Resto of line ignored. First ignored character is
'A'.

What do these messages mean?

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