problems compiling with visual studio 2010

[Jeff]

Just a heads up to those trying to use visual studio 2010:
1. the regex size_t problem seems to be back. I fixed it by inserting
"typedef unsigned int size_t" in regex.h
2. There's a bug building in directory paths with long names (length >
20 like "C:\link-grammar-4.7\msvc10").
You get a msg something like "not possible to run MSBuild.exe because
it could not be found at "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework
\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe",
A hotfix is available at:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB2298853/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4955

[Linas Vepstas]

On 4 October 2010 13:45, Jeff <jeffreymi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a heads up to those trying to use visual studio 2010:
> 1. the regex size_t problem seems to be back. I fixed it by inserting
> "typedef unsigned int size_t" in regex.h

size_t is "usually" defined in <stddef.h> -- does windows have this file?

Files like <stdlib.h>, <stdio.h> <string.h> <sys/types.h> and so on all
typically include <stddef.h> because libc uses size_t in much of its API ...

the only file in link-grammar that includes <regex.h> also includes
<sys/types.h> immediately before, which should have taken care of the
size_t problem ... !?!?

[Jeff]

Windows does have stddef.h which is the 'official' home of size_t;
replacing include <sys/types.h> by include <stddef.h> (or adding
stddef) works, and may be the right solution.

On Oct 4, 11:35 pm, Linas Vepstas <linasveps...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Simon J Stuart]

Couldn't agree more! A simple IFDEF could be used to determine if stddef.h
should be included when using VC++2010. It's a simple and elegant
solution... I was actually going to make this suggestion last weekend but we
had a power outage and the message was lost (and I simply forgot once the
power came back on)

Regards,
Simon

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[Paul McQuesten]

It is not clear to me that #include <stddef.h> should even be
conditional. My (vague and incomplete) read is that code should have
includes for all the names it explicitly mentions, instead of relying
on the library.
~Paul

[Linas Vepstas]

On 6 October 2010 10:49, Jeff <jeffreymi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows does have stddef.h which is the 'official' home of size_t;
> replacing include <sys/types.h> by include <stddef.h> (or adding
> stddef)  works, and may be the right solution.

Cool. Done. I'll issue a 4.7.1 which fixes this and a few other minor
niggles in the upcoming weeks.

--linas

[Simon J Stuart]

Linas,
That'll be great! I'm looking into the possibility of producing a
makefile/project allowing LGP to be built in Borland C++ (on Windows, of
course) which would be useful to others who prefer it over MSVC++!
Assuming I'm successful, would you like me to send you the files for
committal into the official SVN/releases?

Regards,
Simon

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[Linas Vepstas]

On 7 October 2010 14:57, Simon J Stuart <kra...@greycascade.com> wrote:
> Linas,
> That'll be great! I'm looking into the possibility of producing a
> makefile/project allowing LGP to be built in Borland C++ (on Windows, of
> course) which would be useful to others who prefer it over MSVC++!
> Assuming I'm successful, would you like me to send you the files for
> committal into the official SVN/releases?

Sure.

If you're speedy, we can get this into 4.7.1

You can pull the latest version from svn if you want to test.

--linas