error: expected `)' before "_SPOINTERSIZEARG_"

[biggyK]

Hello All,

I'm trying to compile CVS version of DSS (Darwin Streaming Server), but keep getting these errors:

PlaylistBroadcaster.cpp: In function `void RegisterEventHandlers()':
PlaylistBroadcaster.cpp:2097: error: expected `)' before "_SPOINTERSIZEARG_"
PlaylistBroadcaster.cpp:2104: error: expected `)' before "_SPOINTERSIZEARG_"
PlaylistBroadcaster.cpp:2112: error: expected `)' before "_SPOINTERSIZEARG_"
PlaylistBroadcaster.cpp:2120: error: expected `)' before "_SPOINTERSIZEARG_"

This is how PlaylistBroadcaster.cpp looks like at these lines:

   2094     if ( ::signal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN) != SIG_IGN)
   2095     {   // from kill...
   2096         if ( ::sigaction(SIGTERM, &act, NULL) != 0 )
   2097         {   qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%"_SPOINTERSIZEARG_").\n",         (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );
   2098         }
   2099     }
   2100
   2101     if ( ::signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN) != SIG_IGN)
   2102     {   // ^C signal
   2103         if ( ::sigaction(SIGINT, &act, NULL)  != 0 )
   2104         {   qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%"_SPOINTERSIZEARG_").\n",         (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );
   2105         }
   2106
   2107     }
   2108
   2109     if ( ::signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) != SIG_IGN)
   2110     {   // broken pipe probably from a failed RTSP session (the server went down?)
   2111         if ( ::sigaction(SIGPIPE, &act, NULL)   != 0 )
   2112         {   qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%"_SPOINTERSIZEARG_").\n",         (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );
   2113         }
   2114
   2115     }
   2116
   2117     if ( ::signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN) != SIG_IGN)
   2118     {   // broken pipe probably from a failed RTSP session (the server went down?)
   2119         if ( ::sigaction(SIGHUP, &act, NULL)  != 0)
   2120         {   qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%"_SPOINTERSIZEARG_").\n",         (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );
   2121         }

Could you please tell me what's wrong with the syntax, and how to fix it?

[Mario F.]

use \" for those quotes around _SPOINTERSIZEARG_...

qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%\"_SPOINTERSIZEARG_\").\n",         (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );

or remove those two quotes altogether?... I'm not familiar with printf(), sorry. But I would guess this last one is the way to go.

[biggyK]

Thank you very much Mario, it helped

[Salem]

That makes it compile, but it isn't an answer.

> qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%"_SPOINTERSIZEARG_").\n", (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );
It's probably missing something like
#define _SPOINTERSIZEARG_ "d"

Which would cause that printf-like call to become
qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%" "d" ").\n", (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );

Which in turn would be read by the compiler as
qtss_printf( "- PlaylistBroadcaster: System error (%d).\n", (PointerSizedInt)SIG_ERR );

Search your header files for any mention of _SPOINTERSIZEARG_, perhaps in some platform-dependent configuration file.
My guess is, if you're compiling for a new platform, you're missing something.