GDCM woes
Dear all,
I'm currently trying to package the new version 2.6 of gdcm.
All the work is done in a separate branch [1].
Things I've done:
- add the patch proposed by Mathieu in #797673 to use CastXML to
generate csharp bindings,
- switch to VTK6,
- remove java bindings because they require libvtk6-java, which is not
available due to #773422 (luckily there are no reverse dependencies
on the gdcm-*-java packages,
- remove the castxml patch since it is applied upstream,
- update patches.
However, the package doesn't compile because swig (2.0 and 3.0) don't
like the input when creating the C# bindings, i.e. they fail with
/usr/bin/swig2.0 -csharp -namespace vtkgdcm [...] [...]/VTK/vtkgdcm.i
/usr/include/vtk-6.2/vtkObject.h:50: Error: Syntax error in input(1).
The line in question is:
class VTKCOMMONCORE_EXPORT vtkObject : public vtkObjectBase
and somehow I suspect that VTKCOMMONCORE_EXPORT is not defined
properly.
Now, I don't have any clue about using swig, so any help on how to fix
this would be appreciated.
Given that gdcm blocks the migration of ITK and all packages that
depend on the latter, it would be nice to get this package bug-free
again.
Now, considering that the gdcm mono bindings also have no reverse
dependencies and that they are supposed to be created using activiz.net
(no VTK6) and mummy (needs gccxml and doesn't work with g++5), one
approach may be to drop C# bindings for now - which would be my
approach if nobody steps up do resolve the problem differently.
Best,
Gert
[1] svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/gdcm/prepare-2.6
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