[Liblas-devel] build problem OS X

[Stuart Edwards]

On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Howard Butler wrote:

> 
> On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Stuart Edwards wrote:
> 
>> Hi ~
>> 
>> I'm trying to install libLAS-1.6.0 on OS X 10.6 and have run into a problem during build.  First though, congratulations on the amazing install documentation without which I (a non-programmer) would never have got even to this point.  Everything has gone according to the instructions so far - I've installed boost, cmake and laszip-1.0.1 (actually not mentioned in the documentation).  The configure process has completed successfully for the base and optional libraries, but at build I get seven errors that causes build to fail - I'm trying to build lasinfo, as directed.
>> 
>> The errors all occur in point.cpp.  
>> 
>> 1.   Four are missing ";" before "}"  ( at lines 498, 514, 530, and 571) These are all in conjunction with "#endif" statements and adding a seemingly redundant ";" before the "}" makes these errors go away, but may be causing other damage that I'm not aware of. 
>> 
>> 2.  Two more are similar to each other -  at lines 563, 791, 
>> 
>> e.g
>> 
>> #ifdef LIBLAS_ENDIAN_AWARE
>>    boost::uint16_t output = liblas::detail::bitsToInt<boost::int32_t>(output, m_data, pos);
>>    return output
>> #else
>>    boost::uint8_t* data = const_cast<boost::uint8_t*>(&m_data[0] + pos);
>>    boost::uint16_t* output = reinterpret_cast<boost::uint16_t*>(data);
>>    return *output;
>> #endif
>> ;  //(note -- my ";" see 1.above)
>> }
>> and the error is:
>> 
>> point.cpp:563: error: no matching function for call to 'bitsToInt(uint16_t&, const std::vector<unsigned char, std::allocator<unsigned char> >&, size_t&)'
>> 
>> 
>> 3.  The last is:              Command /Developer/usr/bin/g++-4.2 failed with exit code 1
>> 
>> This one is puzzling since I did set CC=/usr/bin/llvm-gcc,   and $CC yields 
>> 
>> i686-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2: no input files
>> 
>> Having made it this far I'd like to get this running, so if anyone has any advice it would be much appreciated.
> 
> Stewart,
> 
> Do you happen to know which version of XCode you are running?  I'm running the latest XCode (3.2.5, I think), and I can compile libLAS using both LLVM and regular g++ without a problem.  I could do so before Michael made the fixes as well.  
> 
> Howard
> 
> PS, while we're doing our best to support LLVM, the version that comes with XCode is a bit old, and no libLAS developer is a daily LLVM user at this time.  We want to make sure that platform works, as it is a rapidly improving up-and-comer, but it might still lag a little bit due to cultural uptake from the project.

It's 3.2.3 - I'll update it and see what happens.
thx

Stu