Installing on Gentoo

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#1

This may not be specific to my distro but I’ve settled all the include dependency’s by tracking the compilation errors of making OF and some of its examples. I’m having a problem with ALCdevice. Specifically

/usr/include/AL/alc.h:34:16: error: using typedef-name 'ALCdevice' after 'struct' 34 | typedef struct ALCdevice ALCdevice;

Is the main source of the error in the OpenAlSoundPlayer.cpp file

Thanks ahead of time for the help.

#2

Can confirm that it is not distro specific because when running the compilation script for OF on arch after running the install dependencies script I get the same error.

/usr/include/AL/alc.h:34:16: error: using typedef-name 'ALCdevice' after 'struct'
   34 | typedef struct ALCdevice ALCdevice;

using gcc 9.3 on both systems

both downloads are the links on the of website of…tar.gz

#3

Hi
Maybe this one is of some help?
https://forum.openframeworks.cc/t/compilation-failing-due-to-confliting-definition-in-openal/33927

#4

Hi Bencilari,

This seemed to do the trick.

Changing

typedef struct ALCdevice_struct ALCdevice;
/** Opaque context handle */
typedef struct ALCcontext_struct ALCcontext;

To

struct ALCdevice;
struct ALCcontext;

Thanks alot :slight_smile: