[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk]channel-main.c: gssize type error with mingw32-gcc

[Cody Chan]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 02:03:10PM +0800, Cody Chan wrote:
>> Here ,
>> mingw32-configure --without-sasl --with-gtk=3.0 --with-audio=gstreamer
>> --without-python --enable-usbredir=yes --enable-smartcard=no
>> --enable-vala
>> mingw32-make
>>
>> There is a error:
>> ......
>>  CC       channel-webdav.lo
>> channel-webdav.c: In function 'demux_to_client':
>> channel-webdav.c:318:5: error: format '%ld' expects argument of type
>> 'long int', but argument 5 has type 'gssize' [-Werror=format=]
>>      CHANNEL_DEBUG(self, "pushing %ld to client %p", size, client);
>>      ^
>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>> make[4]: *** [channel-webdav.lo] Error 1
>
> Should be fixed by
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2014-April/016569.html
> (make CFLAGS="-Wno-error" will probably avoid this breaking the build)
>
>> ......
>> Doc says: typedef signed int gssize;
>> It's just a tiny bug, but it is strange that it's ok with gcc.
>
> This is a platform dependent typedef, on my linux x86_64 machine it's:
> typedef signed long gssize;

So that explains it!
Cheers

> Christophe