Hi.

I hope this is the right forum for this.

I am having some major problems getting luabind to even compile with mingw.

I have searched and followed every tutorial / stackoverflow thread / other documentation available and it doesn't help.

Steps taken:

1. Downloaded boost and build bjam with cmd "bootstrap.bat mingw" (tried versions 1.5.5, 1.5.4 and 1.3.4 same results)

2. Downloaded lua precompiled binaries (version 4.1.0 since that is supposidly the only one compatible with luabind)

3. Added environment variables BOOST_ROOT and LUA_PATH to their respective value

4. Added bjam path to environment variables

5. Downloaded luabind (tried all versions since 2006) and ran this in cmd "bjam stage toolset=gcc"

Output:

"g++"  -ftemplate-depth-128 -O0 -fno-inline -Wall -g  -DLUABIND_BUILDING  -I
"." -I"C:\boost_1_54_0" -I"C:\mingw_dev_lib\lua41\include" -c -o "bin\gcc-mingw-
4.7.1\debug\src\overload_rep.o" "src\overload_rep.cpp"
 
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin\gcc-mingw-4.7.1\debug\src\overload_rep.o...
gcc.compile.c++ bin\gcc-mingw-4.7.1\debug\src\stack_content_by_name.o
In file included from ./luabind/wrapper_base.hpp:31:0,
                 from ./luabind/back_reference.hpp:27,
                 from ./luabind/class.hpp:97,
                 from ./luabind/luabind.hpp:28,
                 from src\stack_content_by_name.cpp:25:
./luabind/detail/call_member.hpp:318:1: error: missing binary operator before to
ken "("
In file included from ./luabind/back_reference.hpp:27:0,
                 from ./luabind/class.hpp:97,
                 from ./luabind/luabind.hpp:28,
                 from src\stack_content_by_name.cpp:25:
./luabind/wrapper_base.hpp:90:1: error: missing binary operator before token "("
 
In file included from ./luabind/detail/constructor.hpp:39:0,
                 from ./luabind/class.hpp:98,
                 from ./luabind/luabind.hpp:28,
                 from src\stack_content_by_name.cpp:25:
./luabind/wrapper_base.hpp:90:1: error: missing binary operator before token "("
 
In file included from ./luabind/detail/constructor.hpp:41:0,
                 from ./luabind/class.hpp:98,
                 from ./luabind/luabind.hpp:28,
                 from src\stack_content_by_name.cpp:25:
./luabind/detail/signature_match.hpp:151:1: error: missing binary operator befor
e token "("
./luabind/detail/signature_match.hpp:227:1: error: missing binary operator befor
e token "("
In file included from ./luabind/detail/constructor.hpp:42:0,
                 from ./luabind/class.hpp:98,
                 from ./luabind/luabind.hpp:28,
                 from src\stack_content_by_name.cpp:25:
./luabind/detail/call_member.hpp:318:1: error: missing binary operator before to
ken "("
In file included from ./luabind/detail/constructor.hpp:43:0,
                 from ./luabind/class.hpp:98,
                 from ./luabind/luabind.hpp:28,
                 from src\stack_content_by_name.cpp:25:
./luabind/wrapper_base.hpp:90:1: error: missing binary operator before token "("

And it goes on and on with similar messages from different files...

If i run without toolset=gcc it compiles just fine with mcvs.. the .lib and .bin files are there, just like they should be..

I have looked at :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9631762/error-missing-binary-operator-before-token

and

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6631

which seems to be related, but it doesn't help my situation.

Someone please help

Thanks in advance / AS

This has been resolved... using angelscript instead ^_^

Got it working in no time.. with addons and stuff too.. after spending more than two days trying to compile and include lua, luabind, v8, spidermonkey and more....

I love to code.. i hate everything else around it, setting up environments, compiling stuff that never works arghhh!! *blowing off steam*

Thanks anyway =)

Ah ok, maybe it was a good thing it didn't work out then ;)

I think I got that error because I was using the wrong boost version, or that there were some errors when building boost.

I got past that later though, and actually managed to compile everything, but when trying to include luabind in my project it was complaining about missing references and all other sorts of things. And that was when I gave up on luabind :)

Good thing I didn't have to introduce boost in my project too.. there's no need for it now with C++11 (nor has there been for a while... for me anyways)

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against boost!

I used to use it before, for smart pointers, RNG's etc, and I know that a lot of that is now a part of the C++ standard, which is great!

But since I personally have no other use for boost than for the parts that are now already available using C++11, I just didn't see the point of adding another dependency to the project when I didn't have too, that's all. :)