Re: Help compiling an idl for an Add-in

Hello,
I downloaded the rpm file on the official site and extracted it (using the
file compression tool that comes with ubuntu).
I couldn't make idlc work, but I think it was because my own lack of
experience.
When running idlc it complained about not finding libreglo.so .
I've changed idlc to output what it was calling and it is indeed calling
the idlc.bin on the same folder on the sdk.
Is there anything else you think I could try to investigate the problem a
little further?
I'm more experienced on Java, so I'm sorry that I can't provide any further
details.

Thanks


On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:15 PM, lucass <lucass@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bjoern,
>
> This is the cpp output:
>
> ➜  ~  cpp --version
> cpp (Ubuntu 5.2.1-22ubuntu2) 5.2.1 20151010
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> So, 5.2.1 right?
>
> I'll try to download the sdk instead to check if it compiles.
> I'll let you know the result.
>
> thanks
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen <
> bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:58:20AM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > > The SDK's idlc calls out to a C preprocessor to preprocess the .idl
> > files.
> > > Normally, it calls the ucpp executable next to itself in the SDK's bin
> > dir.
> > > I assume that something is broken in the Ubuntu setup, and that idlc
> > calls
> > > some other preprocessor in a way that does not work.
> >
> > Ubuntu uses cpp as provided by gcc. This is known not to work with
> > gcc-4.8, but
> > so far there was no indication for me that it doesnt work with later
> > versions
> > of gcc.
> >
> > @lucass: What gcc version do you have installed? (What does "cpp
> > --version" say?)
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Bjoern