[Boost-users] Re: gregoran::year_based_generator and mingw-3.4.2

From: Bart (bartmann_nsd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-18 08:40:20

"Antonio Coralles" <noche.suapie_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:41EBE2F0.7020003_at_reflex.at...
> i'm writing on a programm which uses the boost date_time library 
> [boost-version = 1.32.0] heavily; while i normally programm in linux using 
> gcc-3.3.5 i also need to compile my program in windows from time to time. 
> because it makes life easier with another library [gtkmm-2.4.8] i'm using 
> mingw-3.4.2; everthing worked fine (my code contains about 10 000 lines 
> using boost_date_time) until i started using a 
> boost::gregorian::year_based_generator. while gcc-3.3.5 in liux accepts my 
> code without even a single warning [with -Wall], mingw-3.4.2 complains - 
> it seems that the compiler has problems with year_based_generator:
>
> calendar.hpp:60: error: variable or field `insertGenerator' declared void
> calendar.hpp:60: error: expected `;' before '(' token
> calendar.hpp:92: error: expected `)' before '*' token
> calendar.hpp:95: error: using-declaration for non-member at class scope
> calendar.hpp:95: error: expected `;' before '*' token
>
> here is the header:
>
...snip...
> maybe somebody can give me a hint - or maybe point out an error in this 
> header which is ignored by gcc-3.3.5.
> thanks,
>             antonio

I don't have mingw 3.4 available to me (I have 3.2). I do know the 
regressions tests are passing for date_generators and 3.4 though.

Are you able to build the print_holidays example? It uses pointers to 
year_base_generators.

It's in libs/date_time/example/gregorian.

Bart