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When I use wx2.8 to build vlc, I encounter the following error message.

Any idea? Thanks

/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/image.h:136: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
dialogs.cpp: In member function 'void DialogsProvider::OnOpenFileGeneric(wxCommandEvent&)':
dialogs.cpp:379: error: 'class wxFileDialog' has no member named 'SetStyle'
make[7]: *** [libwxwidgets_plugin_la-dialogs.lo] Error 1
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release/modules/gui/wxwidgets'
make[6]: *** [all-modules] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release/modules/gui/wxwidgets'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release/modules/gui'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release/modules/gui'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release/modules'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/build/deb/vlc/vlc-0.8.6.release'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

If you are compiling vlc 0.8.6 or the latest svn checkout then compile it with wxwidgets 2.6.3 (downloadable from http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/#previous_stable ). Provide the path to the wxwidget directory by adding --with-wx-config-path=/path/to/your/wxWidgets-2.6.3 to the configure command. When using the latest svn checkout you even get an error message during the configure process when trying to use wxwidgets 2.8.

Hope this helps,
regards, rainer

Well, I success compile vlc 0.8.6 with wx2.8 by applying the following patch.

Thanks, anyway.

Best Wish

Tsai Dung-Bang


@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- vlc/modules/gui/wxwidgets/dialogs.cpp~ 2006-12-09 02:12:14.000000000 +0100
++++ vlc/modules/gui/wxwidgets/dialogs.cpp 2006-12-18 00:35:58.752118250 +0100
+@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
+ {
+ p_file_generic_dialog->SetMessage( wxU(p_arg->psz_title) );
+ p_file_generic_dialog->SetWildcard( wxU(p_arg->psz_extensions) );
+- p_file_generic_dialog->SetStyle( (p_arg->b_save ? wxSAVE : wxOPEN) |
++ p_file_generic_dialog->SetWindowStyle( (p_arg->b_save ? wxSAVE : wxOPEN) |
+ (p_arg->b_multiple ? wxMULTIPLE:0) );
+ }
+

Can you tell me, how to apply this patch ?

I tried something like

patch -p1 < THISpatch

in vlc source directory, but have this:

missing header for unified diff at line 1 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 1
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
File to patch:

Looks like the patch is broken.

This one should work:
But it might be simpler to change SetStyle to SetWindowStyle manually in modules/gui/wxwidgets/dialogs.cpp.

Finally works, Thank You very much !

that being said, i've some look-n-feel glitches with wxgtk28 builds.

some widgets are misplaced and/or missing and i have a segfault on exit.

so, i don't think that's a good idea to build vlc against wxgtk-2.8.

the crash with wx 2.8 could actually be tracked down to an error of wxwidgets itself.

This patch for wx 2.8 solves such crashes:
http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxWi ... view=patch

alternative, wxwidgets can also be compiled without fnome-vfs support, this should also help

good!!!!!!!!

If you are compiling vlc 0.8.6 or the latest svn checkout then compile it with wxwidgets 2.6.3 (downloadable from http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/#previous_stable ). Provide the path to the wxwidget directory by adding --with-wx-config-path=/path/to/your/wxWidgets-2.6.3 to the configure command. When using the latest svn checkout you even get an error message during the configure process when trying to use wxwidgets 2.8.

Hope this helps,
regards, rainer

I see. I'll see to it. thank.


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