Re: Invalid use of 'static' in linkage specification

On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Alberto Simões wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Although most architectures are compiling my module correctly, I am getting some complains for some random linuxes:
> 
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/294f5cfc-3507-11e1-9d6f-f6dbfa7543f5
> 
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/c9dafc5a-34fb-11e1-9d6f-f6dbfa7543f5
> 
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/1afb75b2-34c3-11e1-9bca-f0349aeef8c6
> 
> They complain about the use of 'static' on the file generated by ExtUtils::ParseXS. But my .xs file doesn't have any 'static' on it, so it is referring to some code generated automatically.
> 
> Any hint on what it might be?

It's hard to say without seeing the generated code.  The error message:

cc -Icld-src -I/home/cpan/pit/bare/perl-5.15.2/lib/5.15.2/x86_64-linux/CORE -fPIC -fPIC -I. -O2 -DCLD_WINDOWS -c -x c++ -O2 -o CLD.o CLD.cc
CLD.cc:178: error: invalid use of 'static' in linkage specification
CLD.cc:179: error: invalid use of 'static' in linkage specification
error building CLD.o from 'CLD.cc' at /home/cpan/pit/bare/perl-5.15.2/lib/5.15.2/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 177.

shows that the XS code is being turned into C++ code rather than C code.

It may be that one of the xsubpp macros that expects to expand into a C function is expanding in C++ class scope.


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