clipbrd.cpp:254: error: cast from 'void*' to 'guint' loses precision

[Eiso AB]

Vadim Zeitlin <vadim <at> wxwidgets.org> writes:

> 
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:42:01 +0200 Eiso AB [...] wrote:
> 
> EA> in trying to compile wxGTK-2.8.4 under Centos5 I'm getting an error
> EA> at this point after make
> ...
> EA> ../src/gtk/clipbrd.cpp: In function 'void selection_handler(GtkWidget*, 
> EA> GtkSelectionData*, guint, guint, void*)':
> EA> 
> EA> ../src/gtk/clipbrd.cpp:254: error: cast from 'void*' to 'guint' loses
> precision
> 
>  The line 254 contains GPOINTER_TO_UINT() macro which is supposed to cast
> guint to "void *" correctly even on 64 bit platforms. If this results in an
> error for you it looks like a wrong glibconfig.h (where this macro is
> defined) is used or maybe you use some ancient GTK+ version which had a bug
> in it.
> 
>  For the reference, I can build wx 2.8.4 just fine under 64 bit Linux and
> the macro is defined like this here:
> 
> 	#define GPOINTER_TO_UINT(p) ((guint) (gulong) (p))
> 
>  Regards,
> VZ
> 

thanks, 
I installed some extra rpms:
compat-glibc.i386 compat-glibc.x86_64 compat-glibc-headers.x86_64 
glib-devel.i386 
and now make finished ok. [not sure which of the packages actually made 
the difference] 

Eiso