Oracle Pro*C Precompiler error PCC-S-02201: Encountered the symbol "_Bool"

Question

An existing program is being converted from AIX to RedHat Linux. Oracle Pro*C is causing problems upon precompilation. The compilation error occurs with the file cursesh.h for the bool typedef.

The precompilation configuration:

sys_include=($ORACLE_HOME/precomp/public,$ORACLE_HOME/precomp/syshdr,/usr/include,/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.7/include)
ltype=short
define=__x86_64__

The includes path is matching with gcc compiler path.

Please help me in resolving the the compilation error. Do I need to include any other preprocessor symbol or missing anything in sys_include?

Pro*C/C++: Release 12.1.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jan 23 10:29:54 2014

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System default option values taken from: /opt/oracle/product/12.1.0/precomp/admin/pcscfg.cfg

Syntax error at line 374, column 2, file /usr/include/curses.h:
Error at line 374, column 2 in file /usr/include/curses.h
        bool    _notimeout;     /* no time out on function-key entry? */
.1
PCC-S-02201, Encountered the symbol "_Bool" when expecting one of the following:

   } char, const, double, enum, float, int, long, ulong_varchar,
   OCIBFileLocator OCIBlobLocator, OCIClobLocator, OCIDateTime,
   OCIExtProcContext, OCIInterval, OCIRowid, OCIDate, OCINumber,
   OCIRaw, OCIString, short, signed, sql_context, sql_cursor,
   struct, union, unsigned, utext, uvarchar, varchar, void,
   volatile, a typedef name,

PCSCFG.CFG:

$ more /opt/oracle/product/12.1.0/precomp/admin/pcscfg.cfg

sys_include=($ORACLE_HOME/precomp/public,/usr/include,/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.7/include)
ltype=short
define=__x86_64__

Answer 1

You should add following to your pcscfg.cfg

code=ansi

You can also set the compiler-flag CODE=ANSI_C to your PROC-Flags