Subj : Soupgate / Spoon
To : Vincent Coen
From : Sean Rima
Date : Tue Jun 30 2020 04:54 pm
Hello Vincent!
30 Jun 20 15:48, you wrote to me:
VC> Hello Sean!
VC> Tuesday June 30 2020 01:26, you wrote to All:
>> I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a
>> command line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's
>> sister app SPOON.
>> I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over
>> my head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well
>> gone. But it is a good app
VC> To build it run the spoon.sh script but if you are win then look at
VC> content and modify i to run on your system.
VC> As to why it might be failing ==== if you do compile it ::
VC> Look at file spoon.err for why but here it shows multi lines similar
VC> to :
VC> n file included from spoon.h:115,
VC> from spoon.cpp:40:
VC> socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
VC> #include "iostream.h"
VC> ^~~~~~~~~~~~
VC> compilation terminated.
VC> In file included from spoon.h:115,
VC> from config.cpp:38:
VC> socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
VC> #include "iostream.h"
VC> Needless to say I do not have iostream.h but it does ring a bell just
VC> cant remember from where .
VC> Just did a search - here is is on a old partition and relates to fpc
VC> (free pascal compiler) so not helpfull.
VC> Does not help that what docs are with it do not indicate if any extra
VC> packages / libraries are needed.
Turns out you have to change iostream.h to iostream and fstream.h to fstream in the hpp file and in the socket.cpp add below include <socket.hpp>
using namespace std;
Sean
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