Problem compiling xmlcopyeditor-1.2.0.10

[Keith_Beef]

The title says it all.

The version of xmlcopyeditor in the repositories does not work. The most recent source code requires a library that is not available for 12.04LTS, so I downloaded the source for version 1.2.0.10.

I had to install quite a few libraries to get the configure script to complete, but then make failed.

Details of the steps and the libraries I installed are below.

install libxslt1-dev
unpack the tarball to /usr/local/src
run configure script

checking for pcre.h... no
configure: error: PCRE headers not found

install libpcre++0

checking for pcre.h... no
configure: error: PCRE headers not found

install libpcre++-dev and libpcrecpp0

checking xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp usability... no
checking xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp presence... no
checking for xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp... no
configure: error: Xerces-C headers not found

install libxerces-c-dev

checking for ENCHANT... no
checking aspell.h usability... no
checking aspell.h presence... no
checking for aspell.h... no
configure: error: Aspell headers not found

install libenchant-dev and libglib2.0-dev
install libaspell-dev

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

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Debug               Disabled

looks like configure worked.

make ends with this:

wrapxerces.cpp: In static member function ‘static const wxMBConv& WrapXerces::getMBConv()’:
wrapxerces.cpp:214:52: error: ‘BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT_MSG’ was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [wrapxerces.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/xmlcopyeditor-1.2.0.10/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[steeldriver]

perhaps you're missing libboost-dev ?

[Keith_Beef]

perhaps you're missing libboost-dev ?

It's an idea… I'll try it in a couple of hours. But how could I have known from that message that missing libboost-dev might be the culprit? I would have expected the presence of required libraries to be verified during the configure step, not during make.

I think you might be right. Now that I've spent a good ten minutes searching for a list of dependencies, I've found this page.

It lists:

Dependencies (libraries that need to be present before the tarball compiles)
================================================== ==========================

pcre-devel
aspell-devel
boost
boost-devel
xerces-c
xerces-c-devel
libxml-devel
libxslt-devel
expat-devel

Boost and boost-devel are listed, but they seem to have different names in Ubuntu.

I'm going to install libboost-all-dev (this grabs a load of other packages as well) and try again.

Still fails, but with a different message, so boost was indeed one of the culprits.

wrapaspell.cpp: In constructor ‘WrapAspell::WrapAspell(wxString)’:
wrapaspell.cpp:43:51: error: no matching function for call to ‘enchant::Broker::request_dict(const wxString&)’
wrapaspell.cpp:43:51: note: candidate is:
/usr/include/enchant/enchant++.h:224:11: note: enchant::Dict* enchant::Broker::request_dict(const string&)
/usr/include/enchant/enchant++.h:224:11: note:   no known conversion for argument 1 from ‘const wxString’ to ‘const string& {aka const std::basic_string<char>&}’
make[1]: *** [wrapaspell.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/xmlcopyeditor-1.2.0.10/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

So going back to that list I found, libxml-devel and libxslt-devel might correspond to libxml++2.6-dev (not yet installed) and libxslt1-dev (already installed).