Such errors are common when people use older versions of g++ to write
their C++ code. Later versions of g++ have somewhat stricter
conformance to the C++ standards and catch some lax usage: we've seen
it quite a lot for g++ 4.4.x and even more for pre-4.5.0. In all the
cases I have seen this message indicates a missing header.
wcstombs is a C99 function declared in <stdlib.h>: given that this
looks like a C++ error message, did you include its C++ version,
<cstdlib>?
Note that Mac OS X and (32-bit) WinXP are using g++ 4.2.x. Also, what
other headers a particular header includes is OS-dependent (and maybe
even compiler-dependent): we have had a lot of trouble recently with
<stdint.h> that some OSes (especially MinGW32) include from more
common headers and some do not.
So this may be an OS issue but a compiler-version issue is more
likely.
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, cstrato wrote:
Dear Debian/Ubuntu experts,
For the second time users of my BioC package reported problems when trying to
compile it on Debian/Ubuntu.
The error is always the same: "'wcstombs' was not declared in this scope",
see:
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2010-February/031739.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2009-August/029192.html
Since I have no problems compiling my package on OpenSUSE11.1, MacOS X and
WinXP, I assume that maybe some development package may not be installed?
Do you know what might be the reason for the compilation error on
Debian/Ubuntu?
Which development headers/packages (glibc-headers, glibc-kernheaders??) need
to be installed on Debian/Ubuntu?
Best regards
Christian
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