[flac-dev] FLAC won't allow project to build due to assert.h

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I was looking into adding support for FLAC in my audio library, but 
> there's a problem.  Simply adding the output of:
> 
>    pkg-config flac --cflags
> 
> to the compiler flags so that FLAC's headers can be found will break my 
> build with errors like:
> 
>    error: 'assert' was not declared in this scope
> 
> The problem is that /usr/include/FLAC has an "assert.h" header.  In my 
> C++ project, I have:
> 
>    #include <cassert>
> 
> The cassert header (part of the standard C++ library) will internally 
> include assert.h.  But it ends up including the one from FLAC.
> 
> I'm stuck.  What do I do?

First of all, this is fixed in the next release.

Secondly, what I do for libsndfile with the current release is to remove
the FLAC component of the include path provided by pkc-config and then
include flac headers as <FLAC/headher.h> 

HTH,
Erik
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