Thread: Trouble Compiling 1394 Development Libraries for Linux

I recently the dc1394 development package, libdc1394-devel, from the OpenSUSE mirror http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...10.2/repo/oss/

This library is install in the /usr/include/dc1394 directory off of the root, and includes a header file named dc1394_control.h Whenever I try to compile code that includes this library, I get the following errors

/usr/include/dc1394/dc1394_control.h:266: error: expected identifier before numeric constant
/usr/include/dc1394/dc1394_control.h:266: error: expected `}' before numeric constant
/usr/include/dc1394/dc1394_control.h:266: error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant
/usr/include/dc1394/dc1394_control.h:300: error: expected declaration before ‘}’ token

Which is related to the beginning and end of a block in dc1394_control.h of code I have posted below

Code:

typedef enum {
  DC1394_SUCCESS = 0,   /* Success is zero */              //This is line 266
  DC1394_FAILURE,       /* Errors are positive numbers */
  DC1394_NO_FRAME = -2, /* Warnings or info are negative numbers */
  DC1394_NO_CAMERA = 3,
  DC1394_NOT_A_CAMERA,
  DC1394_FUNCTION_NOT_SUPPORTED,
  DC1394_CAMERA_NOT_INITIALIZED,
  DC1394_INVALID_FEATURE,
  DC1394_INVALID_VIDEO_FORMAT,
  DC1394_INVALID_VIDEO_MODE,
  DC1394_INVALID_FRAMERATE,
  DC1394_INVALID_TRIGGER_MODE,
  DC1394_INVALID_TRIGGER_SOURCE,
  DC1394_INVALID_ISO_SPEED,
  DC1394_INVALID_IIDC_VERSION,
  DC1394_INVALID_COLOR_CODING,
  DC1394_INVALID_COLOR_FILTER,
  DC1394_INVALID_CAPTURE_MODE,
  DC1394_REQ_VALUE_OUTSIDE_RANGE,
  DC1394_INVALID_ERROR_CODE,
  DC1394_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_FAILURE,
  DC1394_TAGGED_REGISTER_NOT_FOUND,
  DC1394_FORMAT7_ERROR_FLAG_1,
  DC1394_FORMAT7_ERROR_FLAG_2,
  DC1394_INVALID_BAYER_METHOD,
  DC1394_INVALID_ARGUMENT_VALUE,
  DC1394_INVALID_VIDEO1394_DEVICE,
  DC1394_NO_ISO_CHANNEL,
  DC1394_NO_BANDWIDTH,
  DC1394_IOCTL_FAILURE,
  DC1394_CAPTURE_IS_NOT_SET = -30,
  DC1394_RAW1394_CAPTURE_FAILURE = 31,
  DC1394_CAPTURE_IS_RUNNING,
  DC1394_RAW1394_FAILURE
} dc1394error_t;                                                            //This is line 300
#define DC1394_ERROR_NUM DC1394_RAW1394_FAILURE+1

There are numerous typedef enum statements through this header that are almost identical in structure, but this is the only one producing errors. Not sure if that might be because I am not using the rest of the typedef enum statements in my actual code.

I cannot figure out what is wrong with this code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I would guess that the problem is before that line - if not before that header is even included. If you are including any of your own headers before that one, look there first. You can also try including the file with a simple "hello world" app to see if there's truly a problem in that header.

gg

Ok, I moved the declaration of the header dc1394_control.h before the headers in libdc1394, and that seems to have corrected the problem. New errors have shown up, but they do not appear to have anything to do with the library.

Thanks for the help.

Nevermind, it is now even WORSE than before. Somehow I missed the hoard of error messages that appear when I moved the header before others in the library.

Ok, I found a least part of the problem. Before I had correctly installed the dc1394 libraries: libdc1394, libraw1394, libdc1394-devel, and libraw1394-devel from the proper http Linux mirror, and had installed them from an ftp server. The ftp server put these libraries in the /usr/local/include folder while the http server put them in the /usr/include folder.

The compiler is apparently trying to access both versions of these libraries, resulting in problems. I have since deleted the set in /usr/local/include from the root account. But unfortunately that has not eliminated the problem.

When I attempt to compile the code, I am getting a bunch of 'conflicting_declaration' errors, like:

Code:

/usr/include/libdc1394/dc1394_control.h:275: error: conflicting declaration ‘DC1394_FALSE’
/usr/include/dc1394/dc1394_control.h:329: error: ‘DC1394_FALSE’ has a previous declaration as ‘dc1394bool_t DC1394_FALSE’

I am not sure why these errors are still there. Does anyone have a better understanding of such errors? Thanks.