[gmx-users] swig compilation error

[David van der Spoel]

Martin Höfling wrote:
> I try to compile an interface for gromacs libraries via swig
> 
> LC_ALL="en.GB" gcc -I/usr/include/gromacs -I/usr/include/python2.4
> xtcio_wrap.c
> xtcio_wrap.c: In function 'SWIG_AsVal_bool':
> xtcio_wrap.c:2713: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
> xtcio_wrap.c:2713: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> xtcio_wrap.c:2713: error: for each function it appears in.)
> xtcio_wrap.c:2716: error: 'false' undeclared (first use in this function)
> xtcio_wrap.c: In function '_wrap_read_first_xtc':
> xtcio_wrap.c:2852: error: incompatible types in assignment
> xtcio_wrap.c: In function '_wrap_read_next_xtc':
> xtcio_wrap.c:2943: error: incompatible types in assignment
> xtcio_wrap.c: In function '_wrap_write_xtc':
> xtcio_wrap.c:3036: error: incompatible types in assignment
> 
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
> 
> I already have written an interface for reading xtc files via ctypes, but swig 
> should handle structs easier and can generate interfaces for java, perl, 
> python and others...
> 
First, this is more a developers question.

Have you checked the C code generated by the program? Some of the 
GROMACS code unfortunately is rather ugly and maybe swig has made an 
error, although not defining true and false seems a tad too basic an error.

-- 
David.
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David van der Spoel, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group,
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