Subj : Compiling from source
To   : All
From : Avon
Date : Fri Jan 15 2021 22:51:38

I'm trying to compile some software from source and hitting errors. It seems
like it's missing files and I think some of the issue was the compile files
were looking for lower case named files but the zip of the source code
had files saved in upper case. I changed the files to lowercase then ran this
best guess.

Note, I've not used gcc much at all.

gcc config.cpp keyboard.cpp nntp.cpp pop.cpp smtp.cpp socket.cpp socket.hpp
sock.h spoon.cpp spoon.h -o spoon.test

The docs say the software is meant to compile using gcc for Linux, you can
see the files have .cpp extensions as well as .h and .hpp

The docs say there should be a suggested make shell script for gcc with it,
but this seems to be missing in the zip.

The other associated programs have the shell scripts but why the one bit of
software I am trying to build is missing it, is anyones guess.

I attempted my above command line based on some other examples where there
was info on how to call gcc... that said I don't know which files to include
in the build and which to leave out.

When I ran this I got the following

In file included from spoon.h:115,
                 from config.cpp:38:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from spoon.h:115,
                 from keyboard.cpp:38:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from spoon.h:115,
                 from nntp.cpp:38:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from spoon.h:115,
                 from pop.cpp:38:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from spoon.h:115,
                 from smtp.cpp:38:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from socket.cpp:8:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from spoon.h:115,
                 from spoon.cpp:40:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from spoon.h:115:
socket.hpp:51:8: error: expected identifier or \u2018(\u2019 before string
constant
 extern "C" {
        ^~~
In file included from spoon.h:115:
socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iostream.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

iostream.h does not appear to be in the zip file with this source code, could
it be some other known file I can source elsewhere?

If there's anyone about that has some experience in these matters or could
help getting this complied, please sing out.

Thanks :)

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