Compile failure for 3.0.9 on Mac OS X 10.4.10

[TreeFrog]

I get this when compiling vanila 3.0.9 on OS X 10.4.10 (Intel and PPC):

CC main-gcu.c
In file included from main-gcu.c:63:
/usr/include/ncurses.h:335: error: parse error before 'bool'
/usr/include/ncurses.h:337: error: parse error before '_leaveok'
/usr/include/ncurses.h:338: error: parse error before '_scroll'

Looks like it's something to do with stdbool, configure seemed to think it was okay:

checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes

Any ideas what to do to fix it?

[TreeFrog]

Any ideas what to do to fix it?

Bah. What you do is use the Makefile.osx in the src directory.

Sorry for the trouble

[mavfin]

I compiled an X11/curses version from the shell easily, and if you just want an OSX version to play, check rephial.org. There's a precompiled X version there.

[TreeFrog]

I compiled an X11/curses version from the shell easily, and if you just want an OSX version to play, check rephial.org. There's a precompiled X version there.

Yeah I tried that one but I think the graphics are broken in it - at least I couldn't get them to work.

Compiling vanilla from source provides a working carbon version with graphics which was what I was after.

[zaimoni]

I get this when compiling vanila 3.0.9 on OS X 10.4.10 (Intel and PPC):

CC main-gcu.c
In file included from main-gcu.c:63:
/usr/include/ncurses.h:335: error: parse error before 'bool'
/usr/include/ncurses.h:337: error: parse error before '_leaveok'
/usr/include/ncurses.h:338: error: parse error before '_scroll'

Looks like it's something to do with stdbool, configure seemed to think it was okay:

checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes

Any ideas what to do to fix it?

The XOpen Curses spec isn't C99 friendly -- the C99 stdbool collides with the bool definitions required by curses.

I have similar problems with older versions of PDCurses (but not 3.3). My workaround was to adjust the curses headers to do things right, then rebuild curses before attempting to use it.

Inspecting PDCurses 3.3...may want to fix my local copy up eventually, as a sufficiently competent C preprocessor in C++ mode should explicitly error when asked to #define a reserved word. [The spec says "undefined behavior" in this case for both C and C++, but bool is reserved only in C++.]