I want to make glest work with newer versions of xerces-c

[Platyhelminth]

Hi,

In Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope there is no longer libxerces-c 27 avalable in the package manager. So you can't compile glest in that platform.

Of course I imagine I could compile libxerces-c 27 myself and install it manually in /usr/lib in order to compile glest, but I don't want to do that.

Can I change the code to make it work for libxerces-c 28 or newer ?

As far I know binaries distributed for gae (here : http://glest.codemonger.org/home_page.php ) are working with libxerces-c 28. So it is possible.

[hailstone]

I think xerces-c 2.8 has always worked, it was 3 that didn't but there is a patch for it.

[Yggdrasil]

http://bugs.gentoo.org/259701
there is a patch for xerces-c 3. version 2.8 always worked.
i think hailstone commited this patch to gae trunk some time ago (if i remember correctly).

[Platyhelminth]

version 2.8 always worked.

It looks like that no. I have it installed and when I do ./configure it says I have not xerces-c installed.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/259701

Ok I installed it with portage in gentoo and it works. But there is lot of people using ubuntu.

[Heretik]

To compile glest, you must have xerces _headers_. Did you install libxerces-c-dev (it's the package name in Debian sid, guess it's the same in Ubuntu) ? After that it shouldn't say it's not installed.

But that's xerces 3 and not 2.8, so it won't compile. Then you must apply in glest the patch for xerces 3 which is here http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=188429 and it will compile.

and by the way, I had another compilation error in Debian sid :

C++ ./build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/optimize/glest_game/ai/ai_rule.o
glest_game/ai/ai_rule.cpp: In member function ‘virtual bool Glest::Game::AiRuleMassiveAttack::test()’:
glest_game/ai/ai_rule.cpp:156: error: ‘INT_MAX’ was not declared in this scope
glest_game/ai/ai_rule.cpp: In member function ‘virtual bool Glest::Game::AiRuleExpand::test()’:
glest_game/ai/ai_rule.cpp:815: error: ‘INT_MAX’ was not declared in this scope

which I solve with this patch :

--- source/glest_game/ai/ai_rule.cpp.old   2009-07-20 15:18:51.000000000 +0200
+++ source/glest_game/ai/ai_rule.cpp   2009-07-20 15:18:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "ai_rule.h"
 
 #include <algorithm>
+#include <limits.h>
 
 #include "ai.h"
 #include "ai_interface.h"

It would be great if these 2 patches could be applied in glest trunk (the second patch has to be checked on other systems before).

[Platyhelminth]

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Did you install libxerces-c-dev
No I installed libxerces-c28 .

Watch this: http://dpaste.com/69104/

[Heretik]

libxerces-c28 is the runtime library, used when you run glest.

To compile glest, you need xerces headers, so you need to install libxerces-c-dev and it will resolve your configure error.

[Platyhelminth]

I installed libxerces-c2-dev , and it worked. I compiled it.