Winex compile problem with ppl.l

When I compile winex (latest from CVS), I get this error:

gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-keep-static-consts -D__int8=char - D__int16=short -D__int32=int "-D__int64=long long" -D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o lex.ppl.o lex.ppl.c
./ppl.l:81:1: warning: "/*" within comment
./ppl.l: In function `pplex':
./ppl.l:305: `seen_junk' undeclared (first use in this function)
./ppl.l:305: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./ppl.l:305: for each function it appears in.)
...

make[2]: *** [lex.ppl.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/downcvs/wine/tools/wrc'
make[1]: *** [wrc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/downcvs/wine/tools'
make: *** [tools] Error 2



I looked into wine/tools/ppl.l file, but it contains some bizarre code I dont understand. I have gcc version 3.2.3
Can somebody help me with this please?

I have the exact same problem

I tried installing 2 versions of Flex (there is only 2) but give me the same error.

I downloaded WineX from CVS with the infos on their web page and tried to compile like this :
./configure --enable-opengl #no error
make depend #no error
make #error

I'm running this :

Mandrake 9.1 (All Updates)
Nvidia Drivers (Latest)
Bison (Latest)
Flex (Latest)

Please if someone could help us, i would be very happy !!

You have to remove the big comment at the head of he file ./tools/wrc/ppl.l

And it will work fine ;-)

I can only support pawn-o-matic - except I had to edit another file, similar to the one his mentioning. The full solution must be this:

Edit tools/widl/ppl.l and tools/wrc/ppl.l and remove the big comment in top of the files. This actually worked for me.

I hate to bring this thread back up, but I still need some help with this.

I had a huge number of errors in ppp.l while trying to compile WineX from CVS (under Debian Sid).

Taking the advice above eliminated the vast majority of errors, but leaving me with this:

gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-keep-static-consts -D__int8=char -D__int16=short -D__int32=int "-D__int64=long long" -D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o lex.yy.o lex.yy.c lex.yy.c:7127: warning: `yyunput' defined but not used lex.yy.c:7706: warning: `yy_top_state' defined but not used gcc -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-keep-static-consts -D__int8=char -D__int16=short -D__int32=int "-D__int64=long long" -o wrc dumpres.o genres.o newstruc.o preproc.o readres.o utils.o wrc.o writeres.o ppy.tab.o lex.ppl.o y.tab.o lex.yy.o -L../../unicode -lwine_unicode -lfl wrc.o(.text+0x9a8): In function `main': /home/motubmpx/temp/winex-stable/wine/tools/wrc/wrc.c:632: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' wrc.o(.text+0x591):/home/motubmpx/temp/winex-stable/wine/tools/wrc/wrc.c:560: undefined reference to `ppdebug' lex.ppl.o(.text+0x482a): In function `push_buffer': ./ppl.l:1060: undefined reference to `ppdebug' lex.ppl.o(.text+0x4a6d): In function `pop_buffer': ./ppl.l:1150: undefined reference to `ppdebug' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [wrc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/motubmpx/temp/winex-stable/wine/tools/wrc' make[1]: *** [wrc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/motubmpx/temp/winex-stable/wine/tools' make: *** [tools] Error 2

....help.....?

The solution that should work for everyone is to install flex-old, because the new flex version brought up many problems using older flex scripts. If that doesn't work for you, remove the long comments at the beginning.

I had this problem, and I found this thread from google. I can't understand why that removing the comments would make it work (It does, I'm compiling at this moment). Could anyone explain to med why it suddenly works?