[Insight-developers] itk/gdcm build errors on Fedora 12

[Arnaud GELAS]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 14:09 -0500, kent williams wrote:
> I don't know what you mean by 'fixing the path' -- where did you fix it? In
> the source file? The CMakeLists.txt? Somewhere else?

I slightly modified FindUUI.cmake to retrieve uuid.h and the libuuid.so
(which is now only locate in /lib and /lib64 directories).

Then, I modified in gdcmUtil.cxx
#include "uuid/uuid.h"
to
#include "uuid.h"

> The compiler errors come from these declarations in uuid.h:
> 
> /* UUID abstract data type */
> struct uuid_st;
> typedef struct uuid_st uuid_t;
> 
> this decares uuid_t as an structure that hasn't been defined.  It's an
> opaque type.  You can't declare a variable of the type because the compiler
> knows nothing about its structure.
> 
> More baffling is that if we're at a similar code revision, the errors are in
> the HAVE_UUID_GENERATE block, and if I look at the header you attached, it
> doesn't define uuid_generate.
> 
> I don't have access to Fedora 12, but what you probably need to do is find
> out where uuid_st is defined -- it would need to be defined before calling
> any declaration of a variable of type uuid_t.

I am now searching for it

> 
> On 11/19/09 12:51 PM, "Arnaud GELAS" <arnaud_gelas at hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Guys,
> > 
> > I have just updated my machine to Fedora 12 (where gcc-4.4.2 is the
> > default version of gcc), and I get the following error:
> > 
> > Linking C static library ../../../bin/libitkNetlibSlatec.a
> > [ 38%] Built target itkNetlibSlatec
> > [ 38%] Building CXX object
> > Utilities/gdcm/src/CMakeFiles/itkgdcm.dir/gdcmUtil.o
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:105:23:
> > error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx: In static
> > member function Œstatic bool gdcm::Util::GenerateUUID(unsigned char*)¹:
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1021: error:
> > Œuuid_t¹ was not declared in this scope
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1021: error:
> > expected Œ;¹ before Œg¹
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1022: error:
> > Œg¹ was not declared in this scope
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1022: error:
> > Œuuid_generate¹ was not declared in this scope
> > 
> > I checked the location of uuid.h, it is "now" in /usr/include (have not
> > checked the location before updating if it was
> > in /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h).
> > 
> > Anyway after fixing the path (on my machine), I get the following error:
> > 
> > [ 38%] Building CXX object
> > Utilities/gdcm/src/CMakeFiles/itkgdcm.dir/gdcmUtil.o
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx: In static
> > member function Œstatic bool gdcm::Util::GenerateUUID(unsigned char*)¹:
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1021: error:
> > aggregate Œuuid_t g¹ has incomplete type and cannot be defined
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1022: error:
> > Œuuid_generate¹ was not declared in this scope
> > /home/ajg23/CVSROOT/Insight/Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmUtil.cxx:1023: error:
> > invalid application of Œsizeof¹ to incomplete type Œuuid_t¹
> > make[2]: *** [Utilities/gdcm/src/CMakeFiles/itkgdcm.dir/gdcmUtil.o]
> > Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [Utilities/gdcm/src/CMakeFiles/itkgdcm.dir/all] Error 2
> > 
> > I can't find what's going on?
> > Any idea?
> > 
> > I attach uuid.h
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Arnaud
> > 
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