[vtk-developers] Python Wrapping Error

[David Partyka]

Likely this is okay, often when newer versions of compilers come out the
core headers get refactored, eliminating automatic inclusion of others.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sankhesh Jhaveri <
sankhesh.jhaveri at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow developers,
>
> Recently, I was running into a problem when building VTK with
> VTK_WRAP_PYTHON checked.
>
> CMake found the right python headers and library but build failed giving an
> error -
>
> [  9%] Building CXX object
> Wrapping/Python/CMakeFiles/vtkPythonCore.dir/PyVTKObject.cxx.o
> ~/Projects/VTK/Source-correct-test-failures/Wrapping/Python/PyVTKObject.cxx:381:23:
> error: expected primary-expression before ‘,’ token
> ~/Projects/VTK/Source-correct-test-failures/Wrapping/Python/PyVTKObject.cxx:381:25:
> error: ‘vtk_weakreflist’ was not declared in this scope
> ~/Projects/VTK/Source-correct-test-failures/Wrapping/Python/PyVTKObject.cxx:381:40:
> error: ‘offsetof’ was not declared in this scope
> make[2]: ***
> [Wrapping/Python/CMakeFiles/vtkPythonCore.dir/PyVTKObject.cxx.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [Wrapping/Python/CMakeFiles/vtkPythonCore.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I did some digging and found that adding #include <vtksys/cstddef> solved
> the problem.
>
> Is that a valid hack or is it something that I am overlooking?
>
> Thanks,
> Sankhesh
>
>
>
>
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