Re: problems compiling libofx

On May 12, 2003 06:32 pm, Peter Gibson wrote:
> Hi,
> I seem to have run into a roadblock trying to make libofx.  I am running
> Linux under SuSE 8.0 and after weeks of frustrated tinkering, was able to
> get Gnucash 1.8.2 up and running.  I want to add OFX support, hence my
> current journey.
>
> The sources (0.6.4) configured fine, however while executing make, I get
> the following result:
>
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4'
> Making all in inc
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4/inc'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4/inc'
> Making all in dtd
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4/dtd'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4/dtd'
> Making all in lib
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4/lib'
> source='ofx_utilities.cpp' object='ofx_utilities.lo' libtool=yes \
> depfile='.deps/ofx_utilities.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/ofx_utilities.TPlo' \
> depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../config/depcomp \
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.
> -I../inc -I/usr/include/OpenSP
> -DMAKEFILE_DTD_PATH=\"/usr/share/libofx/dtd/\" -g -O2 -c -o
> ofx_utilities.lo `test -f 'ofx_utilities.cpp' || echo
> './'`ofx_utilities.cpp
> rm -f .libs/ofx_utilities.lo
> g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../inc -I/usr/include/OpenSP
> -DMAKEFILE_DTD_PATH=\"/usr/share/libofx/dtd/\" -g -O2 -c ofx_utilities.cpp
> -Wp,-MD,.deps/ofx_utilities.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ofx_utilities.lo
> ofx_utilities.cpp: In function `double
> ofxamount_to_double(basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_al
>loc_template<true,0>
>
> >)':
>
> ofx_utilities.cpp:151: implicit declaration of function `int
> localeconv(...)' ofx_utilities.cpp:151: base operand of `->' is not a
> pointer
> make[2]: *** [ofx_utilities.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4/lib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pegibson/tmp/gctmp/libofx-0.6.4'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> any suggestions?
> Thanks in advance for your help.

You need to add a line "#include <locale.h>" (without quotes) to the top
of ofx_utilities.cpp in the lib directory when using gcc 2.

It is fixed in CVS, but I didn't release a new libofx only for this simple 
fix.  Sorry about that. 
-- 
Benoit Grégoire
http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/


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