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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 15:20:51 CDT
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Brad,
Are you compiling against Tcl 8.4.x???
These sound like the errors you'd get if you tried to
compile the current source against an older version of Tcl.
Let me know..
Thanks,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:14:27PM -0400, brad noyes wrote:
> hi,
>
> When compiling VMD (from CVS), i get many errors such as
> cannot convert `const char ***' to `char ***'
> and
> cannot convert `int (*) (void *, Tcl_Interp *, int,
> const char **)' to `int (*) (void *, Tcl_Interp *, int, char **)' for
> argument `3' to `Tcl_CreateCommand (Tcl_Interp *, char *, int (*) (void
> *, Tcl_Interp *, int, char **), void *, void (*) (void *))'
>
> both of these errors seem to be a side effect from implicit cast from
> 'char *' to 'const char *' (or vice versa). Are there compile options to
> allow such a cast to be implicit? Or is there plans to make these casts
> explicit? I have seen this with both gcc-2.96 (linux), and gcc-3.2
> (FreeBSD).
>
> I have the changes necessary in my FreeBSD sandbox, so i could submit a
> patch to fix this if you want.
>
> Thanks,
> --brad
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