make error: 'assert' undeclared (convex3D)

mikshaw · 03-24-2004, 07:32 PM

Attempting to install Convex3D, I have all the listed dependencies, configure apparently goes smoothly, but make presents me with an error about an undeclared function or command:

Code:

formatmap.cpp: In function `Container* C3D::createContainer(int, bool)':
formatmap.cpp:135: error: `assert' undeclared (first use this function)
formatmap.cpp:135: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for 
   each function it appears in.)

I don't know anything about C programming, but it looks to me like there's either a problem with the code, or I'm missing something that was not listed in INSTALL (README is an empty file).
Any ideas? Anything else I should mention?
The function in question is

Code:

Container* createContainer( int format, bool forReading )
{
        if( format==FORMAT_UNKNOWN )
                return 0;

        bool canRead = fmap[format].r;
        bool canWrite = fmap[format].w;

        if( forReading && !canRead )
                return 0;
        if( !forReading && !canWrite )
                return 0;

        switch(format)
        {
        case FORMAT_VOID:               return new ConvexFormats::Void;
        case FORMAT_BIN3DS:             return new ConvexFormats::Bin3DS;
//      case FORMAT_CFILE:              return new ConvexFormats::Cfile;
        case FORMAT_WFOBJ:              return new ConvexFormats::WavefrontOBJ;
        case FORMAT_LWO:                return new ConvexFormats::LWO;
        default:
                ; // can't be there
                assert("createContainer: passed wrong format!!!!!");
                return 0;
        }
}

jschiwal · 03-24-2004, 08:39 PM

Here's a link that may describe you problem and solution.

http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/l.../msg00006.html

mikshaw · 03-25-2004, 03:22 AM

I checked out your link, thank you. It seems that may be the opposite of my trouble. Removing assert.h didn't help, but it did give me a better idea of the problem, which is related to the assert header.
What I did to test was add '#include assert.h' to the file which produced the error, and that particular error didn't occur again. However, the same error occured with the next file that called assert. So...it looks like i need to find a way to include assert.h globally so I won't need to add it to multiple files and test the compile multiple times.

Update: There were only those 2 files which needed assert.h, and make went smoothly after that for a while.
Now there's another error (actually about 40 of them) which I don't understand...the errors themselves give little clue to their meaning:

Code:

/usr/lib/qt3/include/qlistview.h:72: error:                 
   QListViewItem::QListViewItem(QListView*)
ContainerEditor.cpp: In member function `void 
   ContainerEditor::listAddCoord(QListViewItem*, const QString&, Coord3*)':
ContainerEditor.cpp:254: error: no matching function for call to `QListViewItem
   ::QListViewItem(QListViewItem*&, const QString&, std::basic_string<char, 
   std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >)'

...and it goes on for a while with multiple similar messages.
I think in this case I'm missing something (Qlistview perhaps?), but it's getting late...I'll see if it makes any more sense tomorrow.