[solved] problem with making dwm for configuration

Question

hello everyone,
i installed and made the dwm following the instructions of this site
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dw … mmended.29 which seemed to work fine. now i was configuring my config.h in my ~/dwm folder, which leads to the followng error:
makepkg -efi
==> Making package: dwm 6.0-2 (Tue Sep 30 10:26:22 CEST 2014)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing src/ tree
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
dwm build options:
CFLAGS = -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Os -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/X11 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DVERSION="6.0" -DXINERAMA
LDFLAGS = -s -L/usr/lib -lc -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11 -L/usr/lib/X11 -lXinerama
CC = cc
CC dwm.c
In file included from dwm.c:288:0:
config.h:35:2: warning: missing braces around initializer [-Wmissing-braces]
1;
^
config.h:35:2: warning: (near initialization for 'layouts[3]') [-Wmissing-braces]
config.h:35:2: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
config.h:35:2: warning: (near initialization for 'layouts[3].symbol')
config.h:35:3: error: expected '}' before ';' token
1;
^
dwm.c: In function 'keypress':
dwm.c:1087:2: warning: 'XKeycodeToKeysym' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1699) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
keysym = XKeycodeToKeysym(dpy, (KeyCode)ev->keycode, 0);
^
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'dwm.o' failed
make: *** [dwm.o] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
here is my config.h
/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
/* appearance */
static const char font[] = "-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
static const char normbordercolor[] = "#444444";
static const char normbgcolor[] = "#222222";
static const char normfgcolor[] = "#bbbbbb";
static const char selbordercolor[] = "#005577";
static const char selbgcolor[] = "#005577";
static const char selfgcolor[] = "#eeeeee";
static const unsigned int borderpx = 1; /* border pixel of windows */
static const unsigned int snap = 32; /* snap pixel */
static const Bool showbar = True; /* False means no bar */
static const Bool topbar = True; /* False means bottom bar */
/* tagging */
static const char *tags[] = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" };
static const Rule rules[] = {
/* class instance title tags mask isfloating monitor */
{ "Gimp", NULL, NULL, 0, True, -1 },
{ "Firefox", NULL, NULL, 1 << 8, False, -1 },
/* layout(s) */
static const float mfact = 0.55; /* factor of master area size [0.05..0.95] */
static const int nmaster = 1; /* number of clients in master area */
static const Bool resizehints = True; /* True means respect size hints in tiled resizals */
static const Layout layouts[] = {
/* symbol arrange function */
{ "[]=", tile }, /* first entry is default */
{ "><>", NULL }, /* no layout function means floating behavior */
{ "[M]", monocle },
1;
/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod1Mask
#define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
{ MODKEY, KEY, view, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, KEY, toggleview, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, KEY, tag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, KEY, toggletag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} },
/* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
/* commands */
static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
static const char *termcmd[] = { "lxterminal", NULL };
static const char *browsercmd[] = { "dwb", NULL };
static const char *surfcmd[] = { "surf", NULL };
static const char *mailcmd[] = { "thunderbird", NULL };
/*static const char *browsercmd[] = { "dwb", NULL };
static const char *browsercmd[] = { "dwb", NULL };
static const char *browsercmd[] = { "dwb", NULL };*/
static Key keys[] = {
/* modifier key function argument */
{ MODKEY, XK_p, spawn, {.v = dmenucmd } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn, {.v = termcmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_w, spawn, {.v = browsercmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_s, spawn, {.v = surfcmd} },
{ MODKEY, XK_m, spawn, {.v = mailcmd} },
{ MODKEY, XK_b, togglebar, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_j, focusstack, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_k, focusstack, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_i, incnmaster, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_d, incnmaster, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_h, setmfact, {.f = -0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_l, setmfact, {.f = +0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_Return, zoom, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_Tab, view, {0} },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_c, killclient, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_t, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[0]} },
{ MODKEY, XK_f, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[1]} },
{ MODKEY, XK_z, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[2]} },
{ MODKEY, XK_space, setlayout, {0} },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_space, togglefloating, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_0, view, {.ui = ~0 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_0, tag, {.ui = ~0 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_comma, focusmon, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_period, focusmon, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_comma, tagmon, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_period, tagmon, {.i = +1 } },
TAGKEYS( XK_1, 0)
TAGKEYS( XK_2, 1)
TAGKEYS( XK_3, 2)
TAGKEYS( XK_4, 3)
TAGKEYS( XK_5, 4)
TAGKEYS( XK_6, 5)
TAGKEYS( XK_7, 6)
TAGKEYS( XK_8, 7)
TAGKEYS( XK_9, 8)
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_q, quit, {0} },
/* button definitions */
/* click can be ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle, ClkClientWin, or ClkRootWin */
static Button buttons[] = {
/* click event mask button function argument */
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button1, setlayout, {0} },
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button3, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[2]} },
{ ClkWinTitle, 0, Button2, zoom, {0} },
{ ClkStatusText, 0, Button2, spawn, {.v = termcmd } },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button1, movemouse, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button2, togglefloating, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button3, resizemouse, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, 0, Button1, view, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, 0, Button3, toggleview, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, MODKEY, Button1, tag, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, MODKEY, Button3, toggletag, {0} },
i dont understand the error, but as i tried the same with the default config.h, its not due to my changes. i dont get the error when using
makepkg -i
but my changes weren't taken (obviously). for some reason, i cant overwrite the default package!?
greets lizzy
Last edited by caravanlizzy (2014-09-30 14:47:16)

Answer 1

The warning messages are as clear as it gets:
config.h:35:2: warning: missing braces around initializer [-Wmissing-braces]
1;
^
'config.h' is the filename, '35:2' is the position - 35th line, 2nd column. You even get the line in question printed out: '1;' with and "arrow" pointing to it from below - '^'.