NotepadNext 0.9 does not build against upcoming GCC 15

[SigHunter]

Operating System and Version

Gentoo Linux

Distribution

ebuild, compiled from source

Description

I packaged notepadnext for Gentoo GURU Overlay and was made aware, that it does not compile with upcoming GCC Version 15 and I am able to reproduce this aswell. The issue seems to be with Scintilla, I hope opening a bug report for NotepadNext is the correct way

GCC Version: 15 git Snapshot 2024-11-24
Qt Version: 6.7.3
Kernel Version: 6.11.10-gentoo-dist (64-bit)

ScintillaTypes.h:693:18: error: intptr_t does not name a type

Please find the build log attached
build.log

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install GCC 15, for Gentoo this is sys-devel/gcc-15.0.0_pre20241124 and set current compiler profile with gcc-config
2. Download https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.tar.gz
3. tar xfv v0.9.tar.gz, cd NotepadNext-0.9, mkdir build, cd build, qmake6 ../src/NotepadNext.pro, make -j16

Additional Details

No response

[dail8859]

Scintilla is a 3rd party open source library. So if there are any direct changes needed to Scintilla files then an issue would need opened with that project. They may need to make some changes for newer gcc versions.

That being said, Scintilla uses it's header files in an odd way, so not sure if this can be fixed on the "Notepad Next" side such as including additional header files before including the Scintilla files, etc. But I'm not sure since so far things working with current compilers. If you do find a fix that this project can do then I'm happy to include them assuming they are minimal and don't affect other build systems.

Also...I know this compiles with newer versions of Qt, but there's some app issues with anything >6.5.x so if you stick to Qt 6.7 your milage may vary.

[SigHunter]

Scintilla is a 3rd party open source library. So if there are any direct changes needed to Scintilla files then an issue would need opened with that project. They may need to make some changes for newer gcc versions.

That being said, Scintilla uses it's header files in an odd way, so not sure if this can be fixed on the "Notepad Next" side such as including additional header files before including the Scintilla files, etc. But I'm not sure since so far things working with current compilers. If you do find a fix that this project can do then I'm happy to include them assuming they are minimal and don't affect other build systems.

Also...I know this compiles with newer versions of Qt, but there's some app issues with anything >6.5.x so if you stick to Qt 6.7 your milage may vary.

thanks for your response, I noticed there already is a bug report for Scintilla too with a proposed fix