[Kst] Compiling problem on Mac "Thread-local storage"

[Barth Netterfield]

On January 2, 2014 2:52:35 PM Nicholas Chapman wrote:
> Hi, just now I did a "git pull" to get the latest KST, then attempted
> to build it.  I get the following error message:
> 
> In file included from
> /Users/chapman/data1/Applications/kst/src/datasources/ascii/asciisource.cpp:
> 22:
> /Users/chapman/data1/Applications/kst/src/datasources/ascii/kst_atof.h:63:
> error: thread-local storage not supported for this target
> make[2]: ***
> [src/datasources/CMakeFiles/kst2_datasource_ascii.dir/Users/chapman/data1/A
> pplications/kst/src/datasources/ascii/asciisource.cpp.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [src/datasources/CMakeFiles/kst2_datasource_ascii.dir/all]
> Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2
> 14:47:25: The process "/usr/bin/make" exited with code 2.
> Error while building/deploying project Kst (kit: Desktop)
> 
> It looks like it is complaining about line 63 of
> kst/src/datasources/ascii/kst_atof.h:
> static KST_THREAD_LOCAL double _previousValue;

Ooohh..  Yikes.

It looks like __thread isn't supported in clang on Mac - at least for your 
compiler version.  (but it is on linux?)

Maybe try with gcc, which apparently 'fakes' it so it works?

Peter - can you suggest a mac/clang fix?


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Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
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