Server GCC problem

[Darkness]

I am being hosted on vermaxhosting, they have changed there GCC to version  4.2.4 and the tech said they had GCC 4.2.3. To make a long story short now when I run make I get all these errors that I never had before, is there a way to configure your Makefile to use an earlier version of gcc to fix this problem?

[Jindrak]

[Darkness]

Missing a header file. zlib.h in the merc.h file

The thing is, that the error is right, there is not a zlib.h in the src and there never was, just something that was left behind by the ones that created it. The funny thing is, it has never thrown and error at before, like when I run make on another server, or even on cygwin.

So I commented out the part in code with the header, and it fix that problem, but then I got all kinds of errors no functions and everything.

[Jobo]

The problem lies not with GCC, but with a missing library on the host machine. You'll need to have zlib installed. It is far easier if you get your host to install it, but if they refuse, you can install zlib yourself locally, and link to that version.

Without knowing more about which OS you are running your application under, exactly how to do that will be hard to explain ;)

/Brian

[Darkness]

Jobo, no question you’re the man hands down. I would never have guessed that, I have passed the info on to my host. I hope they will take action, so I don’t have to, thank you for the heads up.
Darkness

[Darkness]

I told my host that they need to install zlib to their machine and this is the reply that they sent me.

"Well with alot of work and alot of searching I have made sure that every version of zlib is available on the server and it still gives the same errors when compiling. Maybe if he can suggest a specific apt-get package I can try that but as far as I can see, its installed. The errors all seem to point towards the compiler."

Does anyone know what version I need for mc25c, I tried to look it myself, but I have found nothing.

[boti2]

You might need zlib-devel.  I know I needed it on my test machine I just set up...the zlib was installed, but not the zlib-devel pkg nor the zlib-debug pkg

[Jobo]

If it is debian, I would suggest this package

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zlib1g-dev

if it is ubuntu, I guess the same package would do it

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

something like the above. zlib comes in 2 packages, one is just a binary, for those programs that depends on zlib being installed, the other is a developer package, for those developing applications that needs to link to zlib at compile time (like yours I assume).

Kind regards
Brian Graversen

ps. I have not, as such, tested the above packages, it was just what google popped up when I did a little look for zlib developer packages for debian