Hi,
I've built the libproj library with mingw (for use with PDL on x64 Windows perl) but attempted access to that library fails at the build stage because both projects.h (from the libproj library) and winreg.h (from the mingw x64 compiler) define PVALUE.

Here's a simple script and consequent error message that hopefully makes the problem clear: 
use warnings;

use Inline C => <<'EOC';

#include <projects.h>

SV * foo() {
     printf("Hello World\n");
}

EOC

foo();

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And the error it produces: 
In file included from try_pl_f857.xs:6:
C:\_64\msys\1.0\local\include/projects.h:150: error: conflicting types
+ for 'PVALUE'
c:/_64/mingw64/lib/gcc/../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/winreg.h:76: n
+ote: previous declaration of 'PVALUE' was here
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'try_pl_f857.o'

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Line 150 of projects.h: 
typedef union { double  f; int  i; char *s; } PVALUE;

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and line 76 of winreg.h: 
typedef PVALUEA PVALUE;

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One solution is to change the typedef in projects.h to something else (I chose _P_VALUE), and to amend the other libproj source files accordingly, then re-compile and re-install the library. That's fairly simple as PVALUE crops up in only a few places ... and that works well.

But is there a smarter way to approach this sort of problem - something I could do in that Inline::C script that enables it to run without having to alter projects.h, and without having to remove the #include <projects.h> ?

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to [OT] "conflicting types" in C headers. by syphilis

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