VS2005 breaking my builds !

[Bit Byte]

I'm having problem compiling one of my projects with VS2005. The
problems arise with VS2005 (apparent?) inability to compile log4cpp.

Has anyone succesfully compiled log4cpp using VS2005?

Here are the errors I get:

Error 1 error C2039: 'iterator_category' : is not a member of
'log4cplus::helpers::string_append_iterator<_Container>' c:\program
files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\xutility 572
Error 2 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier
'iterator_category' c:\program files\microsoft visual studio
8\vc\include\xutility 572
Error 3 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++
does not support default-int c:\program files\microsoft visual studio
8\vc\include\xutility 572
Error 4 error C2602: 'std::iterator_traits<_Iter>::iterator_category' is
not a member of a base class of 'std::iterator_traits<_Iter>' c:\program
files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\xutility 572
Error 5 error C2868: 'std::iterator_traits<_Iter>::iterator_category' :
illegal syntax for using-declaration; expected qualified-name c:\program
files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\xutility 572


Ideas, suggestions and (most of all) fixes welcome ...

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

I'm having problem compiling one of my projects with VS2005. The
problems arise with VS2005 (apparent?) inability to compile log4cpp.

What version of log4cpp are you using? I tried grabbing the latest code
(v0.3.5) from sourceforge and found only a VC6 workspace that contains a
bunch of broken projects - it doesn't look like anyone's done any VC++
maintenance on this project for a couple years, and even then they were
using a year out of date version of VC++..

-cd

 

[Bit Byte]

What version of log4cpp are you using? I tried grabbing the latest code
(v0.3.5) from sourceforge and found only a VC6 workspace that contains a
bunch of broken projects - it doesn't look like anyone's done any VC++
maintenance on this project for a couple years, and even then they were
using a year out of date version of VC++..

-cd

Hi Carl, I'm using v1.0.2 - please see http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/
Yes, I agree dev has kinda halted on this (last fix was in '04) - but I
have a lot of other code using the log4cpp dll and it would be a
nightmare to strip it out and use another library ...

Cheers

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Hi Carl, I'm using v1.0.2 - please see
http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/ Yes, I agree dev has kinda halted
on this (last fix was in '04) - but I have a lot of other code using
the log4cpp dll and it would be a nightmare to strip it out and use
another library ...

OK, that version is much closer to working. I had to make 2 changes to get
it to compile with VC 2005:

replace all occurrences of __value with something else: __value is
recognized as a keyword by the VC2005 compiler (the authors of log4cpp
should not have used it - all identifiers containing two consequetive
underscores are reserved to the implementation).

For the specific error you're seeing, insert the following line of code into
\include\log4cplus\helpers\stringhelper.h, line 123:

typedef std:utput_iterator_tag iterator_category;

I didn't try testing the library, but it builds with those two changes.

-cd

 

[Bit Byte]

Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] wrote:

Bit Byte wrote:


I'm having problem compiling one of my projects with VS2005. The
problems arise with VS2005 (apparent?) inability to compile log4cpp.


What version of log4cpp are you using? I tried grabbing the latest
code (v0.3.5) from sourceforge and found only a VC6 workspace that
contains a bunch of broken projects - it doesn't look like anyone's
done any VC++ maintenance on this project for a couple years, and
even then they were using a year out of date version of VC++..

-cd

Hi Carl, I'm using v1.0.2 - please see
http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/ Yes, I agree dev has kinda halted
on this (last fix was in '04) - but I have a lot of other code using
the log4cpp dll and it would be a nightmare to strip it out and use
another library ...

OK, that version is much closer to working. I had to make 2 changes to get
it to compile with VC 2005:

replace all occurrences of __value with something else: __value is
recognized as a keyword by the VC2005 compiler (the authors of log4cpp
should not have used it - all identifiers containing two consequetive
underscores are reserved to the implementation).

For the specific error you're seeing, insert the following line of code into
\include\log4cplus\helpers\stringhelper.h, line 123:

typedef std:utput_iterator_tag iterator_category;

I didn't try testing the library, but it builds with those two changes.

-cd

Thanks for the quick response Carl - I'll make the modifications now and
then test it later with my apps - I'll let you know how it goes.