Hi guys,

Could anyone who is able to successfully build kde from svn please tell me what are the versions are you using for the following ?

gcc
glib
gstreamer

I'm getting mad with this ... tried to compile using the latest gcc (4.4.0), glib (2.21.2) and gstreamer (0.10.23) and I get tons of errors ... mostly involving gstreamer and glib ...

Thanks!

GStreamer is not a recommended backend, it is recommended to use the Xine backend.

megadriver wrote:gcc

gcc (Debian 4.3.3-10) 4.3.3

megadriver wrote:glib

2.20.3

megadriver wrote:gstreamer

0.10.23

Cheers,
_

Downgrading GCC and GLIB didn't solve my problem ...

I'm getting tons of errors, mostly related to glib. These are the first ones ...

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/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:268: error: 'GSystemThread' does not name a type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:336: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:336: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'gsize' with no type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:337: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:337: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'gsize' with no type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:338: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:339: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'gsize' with no type


I was getting these errors with kdesupport and phonon with gstreamer. Then I've disabled gtreamer and was able to compile, but now I'm facing the very same problem with kdebase :S

Any clues ?

Thanks.

I recommend disabling GStreamer completely, and using Xine instead. Xine is far more supported especially for applications such as Amarok.

bcooksley wrote:I recommend disabling GStreamer completely, and using Xine instead. Xine is far more supported especially for applications such as Amarok.

I doesn't look like it's a problem related to gstreamer, it seems to be an issue with glib.
While trying to compile kdebase 4.2.1 (same happens with any other earlier version, including svn):

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[ 75%] Building CXX object apps/nsplugins/viewer/CMakeFiles/nspluginviewer.dir/viewer.o
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glist.h:34,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gcache.h:34,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:39,
                 from /home/kde4test/kde4/src/kdebase-4.2.1/apps/nsplugins/viewer/glibevents.h:30,
                 from /home/kde4test/kde4/src/kdebase-4.2.1/apps/nsplugins/viewer/viewer.cpp:52:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:42:5: warning: "GLIB_SIZEOF_VOID_P" is not defined
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:42:26: warning: "GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG" is not defined
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gasyncqueue.h:34,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:34,
                 from /home/kde4test/kde4/src/kdebase-4.2.1/apps/nsplugins/viewer/glibevents.h:30,
                 from /home/kde4test/kde4/src/kdebase-4.2.1/apps/nsplugins/viewer/viewer.cpp:52:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:268: error: 'GSystemThread' does not name a type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:336: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:336: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'gsize' with no type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:337: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:337: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'gsize' with no type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:338: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:339: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'gsize' with no type
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:37,
                 from /home/kde4test/kde4/src/kdebase-4.2.1/apps/nsplugins/viewer
(...)
Tons of more ...
(...)


Anyways, how do I "completely disable the gstreamer support" and leave only xine ?

Thanks

Looks like an incomplete installation of glib or the include paths for using glib are not detected properly

What does this command tell you?

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pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0


Cheers,
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anda_skoa wrote:Looks like an incomplete installation of glib or the include paths for using glib are not detected properly

What does this command tell you?

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pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0


Cheers,
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kde4test@asgard:~> pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include


thx.

Completely disabling GStreamer can be done by uninstalling the GStreamer development packages, then cleaning the build directory.

Also, in kdesupport/phonon/CMakeLists.txt you may want to comment (#) the add_directory(gstreamer) line.

dpalacio wrote:Also, in kdesupport/phonon/CMakeLists.txt you may want to comment (#) the add_directory(gstreamer) line.

Did that, and that was how I was able to compilie kdesupport. But it doesn't solve the problem with glib and kdebase (and probably other packages that I haven't tried yet).

Why KDE, which uses QT, would need glib anyways ?!? LOL

Thx.

megadriver wrote:

dpalacio wrote:Also, in kdesupport/phonon/CMakeLists.txt you may want to comment (#) the add_directory(gstreamer) line.

Did that, and that was how I was able to compilie kdesupport. But it doesn't solve the problem with glib and kdebase (and probably other packages that I haven't tried yet).

Why KDE, which uses QT, would need glib anyways ?!? LOL

Thx.

It does not need Glib. It is an optional dependency, for integration with GLib libraries, plugins. If you're not interested in that kind integration, you can omit it completely by removing Glib devel headers, or passing an option to Qt's configure (forgot which, -no-glib?).

GStreamer is based on GLib and therefore KDE needs to interface with it in order to use GStreamer. Xine the recommended backend to use ( for most problems with audio, the first thing requested is to switch to the Xine backend )