Hi,

You're building under Linux like. You want to define the LINUX and skip the VARIANT_BOOL all together.
PAA

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have been building an experiment using the v1718 CAEN interface to talk to my modules and I am using the CAENVMElib Linux Library (2.50). I've managed to deal with data type issues by including additional libraries to my driver code but there is one type error 
that persists:
> 
> 
> In file included from /usr/include/CAENVMElib.h:27:0,
>              	from include/v1718.h:25,
>              	from v1718.c:26:
> /usr/include/CAENVMEtypes.h:323:9: error: unknown type name ‘VARIANT_BOOL’
>      	CAEN_BOOL cvDS0;  	/* Data Strobe 0 signal                     	*/
> 
> 
> The header file used to defined the CAEN types (CAENVMEtypes.h) defines 'CAEN_BOOL' like this:
> 
> 
> #ifdef LINUX
> #define CAEN_BYTE   	unsigned char
> #define CAEN_BOOL   	int
> #else
> #define CAEN_BYTE   	byte
> #define CAEN_BOOL   	VARIANT_BOOL
> #endif
> 
> 
> Has anyone ever ran into that problem when setting up an experiment using the CAEN standard?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Isaac