Re: c++/cursesw.cc compile error

[bug-ncurses]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 01:52:09PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:52:55AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > "../c++/cursesw.cc", line 59: Error: vscan is not a member of
> > std::strstreambuf.
> > "../c++/cursesw.cc", line 87: Error: vscan is not a member of
> > std::strstreambuf.
> > "../c++/cursesw.cc", line 280: Warning (Anachronism): Formal argument
> > init of type extern "C" int(*)(_win_st*,int) in call to
> > _nc_ripoffline(int, extern "C" int(*)(_win_st*,int)) is being passed
> > int(*)(_win_st*,int).
> > 
> > So, does C++ support with the latest patched ncurses require GNU C++?
> 
> no - I have (now that you mention it - except for your machines)
> access to only a couple of workable C++ compilers that aren't g++,
> and it happened to build on SCO (the Solaris C++ compiler at work is
> too old to bother with for ncurses, since it has some problem with
> the vtable that I could not get anywhere with).
> 
> Were you able to build this (except for my scanw changes) with Solaris' C++
> compiler before?

Yes, using -compat=4 -features=bool. The IRIX C++ compiler was also
able to build it (didn't have the HP-UX C++ compiler at the time to
try).

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)