rtiddsgen bug: 0 no viable alternative

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rtiddsgen bug: 0 no viable alternative

Hi, I got the following error when use  rtiddsgen to generate types files. 

ERROR com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.antlr.auto.IdlParser tpc_alarm.idl line 11:0 no viable alternative at input '# 11 "tpc_alarm.idl" 3\n' in member declaration
ERROR com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Fail: java.lang.Exception: The file couldn't be parsed and the rawTree wasn't generated
INFO com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Done (failures)

The idl files are listed:

// tpc_common.idl

 

#ifndef __TPC_COMMON_IDL__
#define __TPC_COMMON_IDL__

#define TPC_NAME_LEN 16

struct TPC_Common {
    char name[TPC_NAME_LEN];
    unsigned long long loopCounter;
    unsigned long long timeStamp;
};

#endif

// tpc_alarm.idl

#ifndef __TPC_ALARM_IDL__
#define __TPC_ALARM_IDL__

#include "tpc_common.idl"

struct TPC_AlarmPlayerCmd {
    TPC_Common common;
    boolean on;
    char alerter[TPC_NAME_LEN];
    unsigned long long id;
};

#endif

Build command:  rtiddsgen -replace -language C++ -d . tpc_alarm.idl

RTI context DDS: 6.1.1

OS:  Ubuntu 20.04

GCC version: gcc version 9.4.0 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 

From the post, I learned this error is caused by GCC-11, however, the gcc version that I used is 9.4.0.

And I also installed gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-6ubuntu2) and gcc version 8.4.0 (Ubuntu 8.4.0-3ubuntu2), and builded with the following commands, and got the same error!

rtiddsgen -ppPath /usr/bin/cpp-7 -replace -language C++ -d . tpc_alarm.idl

rtiddsgen -ppPath /usr/bin/cpp-8 -replace -language C++ -d . tpc_alarm.idl

However, rtiddsgen works fine with gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6) on Debian buster!

So, how can I solve the problem?

 

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from the help for rtiddgen:

    -ppPath <path to the preprocessor>: Preprocessor path
        The default value is "cpp" for non-Windows architectures and
        "cl.exe" for Windows architectures.
         If you use -ppPath to provide the full path and filename for
         "cl.exe" or the cpp preprocessor, you must also use -ppOption (described below)
         to set the following preprocessor options:
         If you use a non-default path for "cl.exe", you also need to set:
         -ppOption /nologo -ppOption /C -ppOption /E -ppOption /X
         If you use a non-default path for cpp, you also need to set:
         -ppOption -C
    -ppOption <option>: Preprocessor option

try adding "-ppOption -C" to the command arguments when you are using "-ppPath".

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I tried the following commands and got the same error.

rtiddsgen -ppPath /usr/bin/cpp-7 -ppOption "-C" -replace -language C++11 tpc_alarm.idl

INFO com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Running rtiddsgen version 3.1.1.3, please wait ...
ERROR com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.antlr.auto.IdlParser tpc_alarm.idl line 11:0 no viable alternative at input '# 11 "tpc_alarm.idl" 3\n' in member declaration
ERROR com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Fail: java.lang.Exception: The file couldn't be parsed and the rawTree wasn't generated
INFO com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Done (failures)

rtiddsgen -ppPath /usr/bin/cpp-8 -ppOption "-C" -replace -language C++11 tpc_alarm.idl
INFO com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Running rtiddsgen version 3.1.1.3, please wait ...
ERROR com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.antlr.auto.IdlParser tpc_alarm.idl line 11:0 no viable alternative at input '# 11 "tpc_alarm.idl" 3\n' in member declaration
ERROR com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Fail: java.lang.Exception: The file couldn't be parsed and the rawTree wasn't generated
INFO com.rti.ndds.nddsgen.Main Done (failures)

 

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Sorry, if that doesn't work, then your best path is to work with RTI's support group which you can contact through your RTI Account team or local RTI distributor.

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After several tries,  if envCPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH includes current path (such asCPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=<some path>:) , it will cause the problem. 

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Thanks for letting us know that you got it working.