On Wednesday 05 August 2009 10:58:39 Chris Ridd wrote: > On 5 Aug 2009, at 17:22, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 08:40:34 Chris Ridd wrote: > >> Has anyone successfully compiled this? The errors persist if I use > >> the > >> gcc-432 package (gcc 4.3.2) instead of the SUNWgcc package (gcc > >> 3.4.3). > > > > I believe we are using gcc-4.1.2-3 with binutils-2.17.50.0.15 to > > build tools. > > > > What version of libsigc++ do you have installed? You need post 2.0, > > we are > > building against 2.0.17. > > Hi Dmitry, > > It looks like I've got 2.0.3. Its readme claims to work with gcc >= > 3.2 (and Sun Studio etc etc). > > So it seems to be a dependency of libgtkmm. I get a successful build > if I use: > > --without-gtkmm --disable-icu --disable-unity > > but I'm not sure what I'm losing without gtkmm. I'm also not sure what > my successful build's given me! >
Without gtkmm I believe you are losing cut and paste and drag-n-drop functionality. And --disable-unity disables unity support ;) > >> There's way too many gcc-isms present in the build system to even > >> *think* of trying to make it work with Sun Studio :-(( > > > > Given that the project is being built on multiple platforms the chosen > > compiler will stay GCC for the forseable future. > > That's a pity, particularly as gcc is poor on Solaris. I'll probably > carry on with gtkmm disabled, but would patches to allow other > compilers be welcomed? > They can surely be considered. > Also what's the relationship between open-vm-tools and what vmware > ship? Will what I am building work in the current version of (in my > case) VMware Fusion? > Open-vm-tools is a snapshot of our development branch, we are tyring our best not to break it so it should work but it is obviously less tested than our shipped code. Is there a particular reason you are trying to use OVT versus the shipped version of tools? Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
