[MonoDevelop] Odd compile errors

[Chris Morgan]

On 1/4/07, Piotr Budny <vip at pesymista.info> wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 4 stycznia 2007 04:32, Chris Morgan napisał:
>
> Hello,
>
> > gtk-gui/generated.cs(405,41): error CS1002: Expecting `;'
> > gtk-gui/generated.cs(462,41): error CS1012: Too many characters in
> > character literal
> [...]
> > ...
> >
> > This file is at
> > Extras/VersionControl/MonoDevelop.VersionControl/gtk-gui/generated.cs
> >
> > The center line here is line 405:
> >
> >                     w39.IsEditable = true;
> >                     w39.InvisibleChar = 'â^×^Ï';
> >                     w39.CanFocus = true;
>
> I've got that same. I've been trying to compile MD since few months without
> success. Lately, I did delete odd lines "InvisibleChar" from generated.cs
> files in versioncontrol and webreferences module (only these reported
> errors).
> After that, the compilation succeeded.
>
> I've reported that error on IRC irc.gimp.org #monodevelop on dec 27 2006 at
> 16:28:55 too.
>
> The lines looked like (some kind of UTF8 chars?):
> w29.InvisibleChar = 'â'; or w39.InvisibleChar = 'â~W~O'; (in vim)
>
> I'm using PLD-Linux.org,
> monodoc-1.1.17-1.i686
> mono-jay-1.2.2-1.i686
> mono-1.2.2-1.i686
> mono-devel-1.2.2-1.i686
> mono-csharp-1.2.2-1.i686
> dotnet-gnome-sharp-devel-2.16.0-1.i686
> dotnet-galago-sharp-0.5.0-1.i686
> dotnet-gtk-sharp-gnome-1.0.10-6.i686
> dotnet-gtk-sharp-gnome-devel-1.0.10-6.i686
> dotnet-gettext-0.15-1.i686
> dotnet-gtk-sharp-devel-1.0.10-6.i686
> dotnet-gsf-sharp-0.8.1-1.i686
> dotnet-gecko-sharp2-0.11-5.i686
> dotnet-gtk-sharp2-2.10.0-1.i686
> dotnet-gnome-sharp-2.16.0-1.i686
> dotnet-gtksourceview-sharp2-0.10-3.i686
> dotnet-gmime-sharp-2.2.3-1.i686
> dotnet-gtksourceview-sharp2-devel-0.10-3.i686
> dotnet-gtk-sharp-1.0.10-6.i686
> dotnet-gtk-sharp2-devel-2.10.0-1.i686
> dotnet-gecko-sharp2-devel-0.11-5.i686
>
> but as I said before, the problem occured few months ago too.
>
> Regards,
> Piotr Budny
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I'm glad to see this isn't a one off issue.  I wonder how many other
people have this problem. I'm hoping whoever is familiar with the
generation of this file will know exactly what to look for as far as
which tool, library or setting isn't quite right.

Chris