[ngj]

Dear all,

I am currently having a small side project, where I would like to make a small GUI for OpenFoam. I have started in QTCreator, and it is surprisingly easy to get somewhere. Though, I have run into a problem.

I would like to use the IO functionality present in OF to read OF-dictionaries, so I do not have to write this entire IO-class again. As a starting point I simply included IOstream.H in the header-file of the QT-project and I got the following error:

 p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }  In file included from ../debug/mainwindow.h:5:0,
                  from ../debug/main.cpp:2:
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:104:13: error: 'scalar' in namespace 'Foam' does not name a type
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:115:37: error: 'scalar' in namespace 'Foam' does not name a type
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:115:50: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'num' with no type [-fpermissive]
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:132:41: error: 'scalar' in namespace 'Foam' does not name a type
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:132:54: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'num' with no type [-fpermissive]
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H: In constructor 'Foam::IOstream::versionNumber::versionNumber(int)':
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:117:21: error: class 'Foam::IOstream::versionNumber' does not have any field named 'versionNumber_'
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H: In constructor 'Foam::IOstream::versionNumber::versionNumber(Foam::Istream&)':
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:124:21: error: class 'Foam::IOstream::versionNumber' does not have any field named 'versionNumber_'
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:124:49: error: 'readScalar' was not declared in this scope
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:125:42: error: 'versionNumber_' was not declared in this scope
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H: In member function 'int Foam::IOstream::versionNumber::numberToIndex(int) const':
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:134:41: error: 'SMALL' was not declared in this scope
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H: In member function 'int Foam::IOstream::versionNumber::majorVersion() const':
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:140:32: error: 'versionNumber_' was not declared in this scope
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H: In member function 'int Foam::IOstream::versionNumber::minorVersion() const':
 /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude/IOstream.H:146:38: error: 'versionNumber_' was not declared in this scope
 make: *** [main.o] Error 1

I have linked (right now with absolute path) as follows:

INCLUDEPATH += /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude
DEPENDPATH += /home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/src/foam/lnInclude
unix:!macx:!symbian: LIBS += -L/home/ngja/foam/foam-extend-3.1/lib/linux64GccDPOpt -lfoam

The interesting thing is that I tried to include "PtrList.H" instead, and the compiler happily goes through the source until it reaches these exact declarations of 'scalar' in IOstream.H. Furthermore, trying to include "vector.H" as a third option, it also complains about a missing definition of scalar.

I have checked and scalar.H is located in the same include directory as vector.H and IOstream.H.

Has anyone tried anything similar? What is it with the declaration of scalar that makes this difficult?

I have added a tiny debug-project for QTCreator.

Thank you for any advice or shared experiences,

Kind regards,

Niels