Re: Error when compiling CVS emacs on Mac OS snow leopard

[Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>]

On Sep 3, 12:34 pm, ramblex <alexdul...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I recently upgraded Mac OS X to Snow Leopard and tried to compile CVS
> emacs; I get the following error:
>
> In file included from nsterm.h:20,
>                  from nsterm.m:41:
> dispextern.h:1250: error: array type has incomplete element type

Replacing the line:

#define NativeRectangle struct _NSRect

in nsgui.h with

#define NativeRectangle NSRect

seems to fix this particular error.  The next problem that turns up
is in nsfont.m, in ns_char_width:

nsfont.m: In function ‘ns_char_width’:
nsfont.m:248: warning: ‘NSFont’ may not respond to ‘-widthOfString:’
nsfont.m:248: warning: (Messages without a matching method signature
nsfont.m:248: warning: will be assumed to return ‘id’ and accept
nsfont.m:248: warning: ‘...’ as arguments.)
nsfont.m:248: error: incompatible types in assignment

Here the problem seems to be that the widthOfString NSFont method
was deprecated, and no longer exists for 64-bit builds.  The fix isn't
at all obvious to me.

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Mark