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Hi All:

When attempting to compile QCAD community edition on my Linux machine running Mandriva 2007.0, I was getting the same error that others had reported, namely:
After a bit of Googling, I found that I could make this go away by modifying the mkspecs/defs.pro file in the directory where I had unpacked the source tarball. At the top of the file, you will see these lines:
I commented these out, i.e. so that they now look like this:
I then re-ran the build script and everything worked with no further errors. Obviously, with a piece of software as complex as QCAD, there's no guarantee that this change won't break some feature or other, but at least having it compile and run without problems is a good start.

Hope this helps someone, somewhere...

Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK

Thanks for the tip. I don't know what -pedantic does, but I read somewhere that adding -Wno-long-long to your make options suppressed those errors as well.

As if I know how to do that...

I'm still compiling, but adding the "-Wno-long-long" text to the lines mentioned above allowed the code to compile.

I appreciate the help.

Compiling QCad will be simple in the near feature : https://sourceforge.net/projects/caduntu/

I am working on a proper fork for the Community edition of QCad, compile currently fine on OSX, Linux and Windows.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/caduntu/

There are still issue to work out... but we are getting there!