[Insight-developers] Error building current ITK and Python wrapping with VC6

[Brad King]

Charl P. Botha wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> For the past week, attempting to build CVS ITK and its Python wrappings 
> with VC6 (SP6) has yielded the attached error message.  I have not been 
> able to diagnose this.  Does anyone else know what the problem could be?
> 
> Thanks for any information,
> Charl
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --------------------Configuration: _VXLNumericsPython - Win32 RelWithDebInfo----
> ----------------
> Building wrap_VXLNumericsPython.xml from  c:\build\Insight\Wrapping\CSwig\VXLNum
> erics\wrap_VXLNumericsPython.cxx
> Building wrap_VXLNumericsPython.idx from  C:\build\Insight-VC6\Wrapping\CSwig\VX
> LNumerics\wrap_VXLNumericsPython.idx.rule
> Building wrap_vnl_vector_ref.xml from  c:\build\Insight\Wrapping\CSwig\VXLNumeri
> cs\wrap_vnl_vector_ref.cxx
> In file included from C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Include/xloc
> ale:12,
>                  from C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Include/xios
> base:9,
>                  from C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Include/xloc
> num:13,
>                  from C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/streambuf:9,
>                  from C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/ios:9,
>                  from C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/ostream:9,
>                  from C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/istream:9,
>                  from C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/string:9,
>                  from C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/sstream:9,
>                  from C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Include/comp
> lex:11,
>                  from c:/build/Insight/Utilities/vxl/vcl/win32-vc60/vcl_complex.
> h:31,
>                  from c:/build/Insight/Utilities/vxl/vcl/vcl_complex.h:30,
> $
> .h:30,
>                  from c:/build/Insight/Utilities/vxl/core/vnl/vnl_c_vector.h:25,
> 
>                  from c:/build/Insight/Utilities/vxl/core/vnl/vnl_vector.h:19,
>                  from c:/build/Insight/Utilities/vxl/core/vnl/vnl_vector_ref.h:2
> 0,
>                  from c:/build/Insight/Wrapping/CSwig/VXLNumerics/wrap_vnl_vecto
> r_ref.cxx:17:
> C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/typeinfo:101: error: `type_info' is
>    already declared in this scope
> C:/build/Insight-VC6/bin/Vc6/Include/typeinfo:101: error: using declaration `
>    type_info' introduced ambiguous type `std::type_info'

Okay, I've fixed this error.  It was related to another change made to 
fix a problem with MSVC 7.1.  I had applied the fix to the MSVC 6 
support in GCC-XML as well, but it looks like I did it a little 
incorrectly.  It should be fixed now.

-Brad