Thread Subject:

Compiling pnet with mex

I am trying to build the pnet package (tcp_dup_ip) using
mex. I'm running 64bit linux and hence the supplied
pnet.mexglx does not work.

I have gcc 4.2.0 installed. When I run mex on pnet.c I get
alot of errors (see below). If I compile with the "CC=G++"
option, less errors, but still alot. I suspect I'm doing
something wrong since no one else has mentioned trouble
compiling this package that I can find.

Thanks.
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> mex -O pnet.c
pnet.c: In function ‘newbuffsize’:
pnet.c:225: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:235: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:239: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘str2classid’:
pnet.c:258: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘byteswapdata’:
pnet.c:323: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:329: error: ‘ordertest’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
pnet.c:329: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
pnet.c:329: error: for each function it appears in.)
pnet.c:330: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:336: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘byteswapcopy’:
pnet.c:360: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:363: error: ‘ordertest’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
pnet.c:366: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:369: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:375: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:378: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘my_now’:
pnet.c:418: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:419: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:421: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:423: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘move_con’:
pnet.c:444: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:449: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘my_mexIsInputArgOK’:
pnet.c:464: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:464: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘my_mexInputArg’:
pnet.c:474: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:474: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘my_mexReturnValue’:
pnet.c:610: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:610: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘my_mexReturnArrayFromBuff’:
pnet.c:659: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:667: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:668: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:670: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:673: error: expected expression before ‘else’
pnet.c:677: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:683: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:709: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:710: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:716: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘ipv4_lookup’:
pnet.c:733: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘writedata’:
pnet.c:760: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:762: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:780: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:783: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘read2buff’:
pnet.c:854: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:866: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:868: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:874: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:874:11: error: too many decimal points in number
pnet.c:887: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:890: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:893: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:898: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: At top level:
pnet.c:919: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘/’ token
pnet.c: In function ‘mexFunction’:
pnet.c:1054: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1067: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1067: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1107: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1111: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1111: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1141: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1154: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1158: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1174: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
pnet.c:1256: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
different size
pnet.c:1260: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
different size

    mex: compile of 'pnet.c' failed.

In article <g0cq9n$k2k$1@fred.mathworks.com>, Peter <pneilley@wsi.com> wrote:
>I am trying to build the pnet package (tcp_dup_ip) using
>mex. I'm running 64bit linux and hence the supplied
>pnet.mexglx does not work.

>I have gcc 4.2.0 installed. When I run mex on pnet.c I get
>alot of errors (see below). If I compile with the "CC=G++"
>option, less errors, but still alot. I suspect I'm doing
>something wrong since no one else has mentioned trouble
>compiling this package that I can find.

>> mex -O pnet.c
>pnet.c: In function ‘newbuffsize’:
>pnet.c:225: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token

When you get lots of complaints about expecting an expression
before a / token, then the problem is almost certainly that you
have used a C89 compliant compiler to attempt to compile code
that uses // style comments. // style comments were not made an
official part of C until C99, but they are a common extension.
gcc will normally allow them even in C89 mode unless options
have been passed to gcc telling it to be very strict.

C++ has included // style comments for much longer, so when you
compile with G++ the problems with those comments go away.
--
  "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
                                              -- Walter Pater

Thanks Walter, That did the trick. Although I couldn't
figure out how to get the mex compiler to run gcc4 allowing
the extended comment syntax "//", I just edited the source
code to change all comments to standard C comment syntax
("/*... */"). That did the trick. All the other errors
reported by the compiler (that at first glance seemed
unrelated to the comment issue) were resolved.

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in
message <g0csid$7kg$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <g0cq9n$k2k$1@fred.mathworks.com>, Peter
<pneilley@wsi.com> wrote:
> >I am trying to build the pnet package (tcp_dup_ip) using
> >mex. I'm running 64bit linux and hence the supplied
> >pnet.mexglx does not work.
>
> >I have gcc 4.2.0 installed. When I run mex on pnet.c I get
> >alot of errors (see below). If I compile with the "CC=G++"
> >option, less errors, but still alot. I suspect I'm doing
> >something wrong since no one else has mentioned trouble
> >compiling this package that I can find.
>
> >> mex -O pnet.c
> >pnet.c: In function ‘newbuffsize’:
> >pnet.c:225: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
>
> When you get lots of complaints about expecting an expression
> before a / token, then the problem is almost certainly
that you
> have used a C89 compliant compiler to attempt to compile code
> that uses // style comments. // style comments were not
made an
> official part of C until C99, but they are a common extension.
> gcc will normally allow them even in C89 mode unless options
> have been passed to gcc telling it to be very strict.
>
> C++ has included // style comments for much longer, so
when you
> compile with G++ the problems with those comments go away.
> --
> "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is
the end."
> -- Walter Pater