Comments on: grit – GBA Raster Image Transmogrifier

By: cearn

cearn — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:41:29 +0000

Unfortunately, I'm limited to Windows, so I can't really help much with linux. That's more wintermute's department. Unfortunately, mkstemp() isn't standard, which is why I'm using tmpnam. IIRC, the warning isn't that serious. The slew of errors in FreeImage looks like an improper build of the library, particularly of some of the sub-libraries it uses (libpng and libjpeg, for example). But again I can't built on linux, so there's little I can do here. This is also the reason I can't bundle a linux-usable libfreeimage.a – well, that and I don't know if it'll work for the various linuxes out there. I imagine if there were a one-size-fits-all that it'd have been included in the FreeImage distribution. You may have better luck on the devkitPro forum.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:59:13 +0000

I cannot compile grit on linux:
either it stops with

g++ -s -static -o grit build/grit_main.o build/cli.o build/fi.o -L. -lgrit -lcldib -lfreeimage
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreeimage

, indicating that libfreeimage is only bundled as Windows-dll.

having installed freeimage-3.13.1 via http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307487, compilations stops with

g++ -s -static -o grit build/grit_main.o build/cli.o build/fi.o -L. -lgrit -lcldib -lfreeimage
./libgrit.a(grit_xp.o): In function `grit_xp_h(GritRec*)‘:
grit_xp.cpp:(.text+0×1a6b): warning: the use of `tmpnam’ is dangerous, better use `mkstemp‘
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../lib64/libfreeimage.a(PluginEXR.o): In function `C_OStream::write(char const*, int)’:
(.text+0×26a): undefined reference to `Iex::throwErrnoExc(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)‘

and lots of other undefined references in libfreeimage.a (complete buildlog at

The makefile looks like you link statically on linux anyway, so how about bundling libfreeimage.a in a usable version as well ?

By: cearn

cearn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:28 +0000

Seems I misnamed the file, sorry. The link should work now.

By: s_hansse

s_hansse — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:36:16 +0000

Can’t download the binary as it cannot be found… :(

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By: toney

toney — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:53:36 +0000

I’m using gcc 4.3 but carl’s fix mentioned above works.
Should’ve tried that, sorry!

By: toney

toney — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:43:28 +0000

Because I’m getting this error when I try to compile on linux:

srcgrit/grit_main.cpp: 793: error: no matching function for call to ’std::vector::insert(char**, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator >, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator > >)
/usr/include/c++/4.3/bits/vector.tcc:94: note: candidates are: __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator std::vector::insert(__gnu_cxx::normal_iterator, const_Tp&) [with _Tp = char*, _Alloc = std::allocator]

C++ libs related?

By: toney

toney — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:54:37 +0000

has anyone compiled grit on linux?

By: Carl Ådahl

Carl Ådahl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:49:03 +0000

To make Grit compile with GCC 4.4, I had to make the following changes:

srcgrit/cli.cpp, line 11, add #include
srcgrit/grit_main.cpp, line 793, add a cast to first argument:
args.insert((strvec::iterator)&args[ii], files.begin(), files.end());

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