Building STLPort in Fedora

[polpak]

Does anyone have any experience building STLPort (www.stlport.org) under Fedora? (specifically FC2)

I've been trying for a couple of days now and can't for the life of me fiigure out what's wrong. I know that Debian has packages for this library. Also libstlport_gcc.so is installed for openoffice, so I know it must have been built somehow...

Anyone give any insight? There are several 3rd party applications that depend on this library to compile. It'd be nice to see it included into the development packages at some point.

Thanks

[Bana]

I've heard that STLport is not needed for versions of GCC above 3.3? Or is this only for the Ogre engine http://www.ogre.org

[dima_ben]

Our product on all platforms compiled with STL port, so when migrating to Linux (Fedora) we prefer to keep using STLport (for compatibility reasons)...

Prequsities:

OS: Fedora Linux 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
StlPort version 4.6.2 unpacked to /usr/local/lib/STLport-4.6.2
GC++ Version: 4.00
src/gcc.mak copied to src/makefile and used to build STL port.


1. Problems with errors like:

../stlport/ctime:25:44: error: ../g++-v3/ctime: No such file or directory
[...]

can be fixed by adding symlink to the "/usr/include/c++/4.0.0" dir in stlport dir:

ln -s /usr/include/c++/4.0.0 g++-v3

background:
to find the right dir to make symlink to you should execute the command:

find / -name ctime 2>/dev/null

it will show you something like:

/usr/include/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/ctime
/usr/include/c++/3.2.3/ctime
/usr/include/c++/3.3.4/ctime
/usr/include/c++/4.0.0/ctime
/usr/local/lib/STLport-4.6.2/stlport/ctime
/usr/local/lib/STLport-4.5.3/stlport/ctime

the version of used GNU C/C++ is 4.0, so you should make symlink to the "/usr/include/c++/4.0.0/" dir.


2. Problem with errors like:

../stlport/stl/_alloc.h:416: error: non-template {xxx}rebind{xxx} used as template
../stlport/stl/_alloc.h:416: note: use {xxx}_Allocator::template rebind{xxx} to indicate that it is a template
../stlport/stl/_alloc.h:416: error: declaration does not declare anything
[...]

can be fixed by specifying the:

#define _STLP_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_CLASSES 1

in the stlport/config/stl_confix.h


After this all should be fine...

To build and run STL port tests:

1. the "regression" test.

the "string_mp.cpp" was missed in gcc.mak file. there is "LIST = " parameter with list of cpp files,
add the string_mp.cpp file to that list. run gamke

2. the "eh" test

in gcc.mak to line:

CXXFLAGS = [...]

add the:

-DEH_DELETE_HAS_THROW_SPEC

then run gmake