Kicad 8.0.5 compiling problem in Linux (boost 1.86)

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Unlike previous 8.0.* versions that compiled well, this version compiling resulted in the following:

[  8%] Building CXX object common/CMakeFiles/kicommon.dir/exceptions.cpp.o
[  8%] Building CXX object common/CMakeFiles/kicommon.dir/kiid.cpp.o
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:50:15: error: ‘mt19937’ in namespace ‘boost’ does not name a type
   50 | static boost::mt19937                                       rng;
      |               ^~~~~~~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:51:52: error: ‘mt19937’ is not a member of ‘boost’; did you mean ‘std::mt19937’?
   51 | static boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937> randomGenerator;
      |                                                    ^~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/c++/14.2.0/random:48,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/detail/random_device.hpp:65,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/detail/random_provider.hpp:9,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/basic_random_generator.hpp:11,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/random_generator.hpp:10,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/uuid_generators.hpp:14,
                 from /tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:28:
/usr/include/c++/14.2.0/bits/random.h:1717:37: note: ‘std::mt19937’ declared here
 1717 |     0xefc60000UL, 18, 1812433253UL> mt19937;
      |                                     ^~~~~~~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:51:59: error: template argument 1 is invalid
   51 | static boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937> randomGenerator;
      |                                                           ^
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp: In constructor ‘KIID::KIID()’:
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:90:37: error: ‘randomGenerator’ cannot be used as a function
   90 |             m_uuid = randomGenerator();
      |                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp: In constructor ‘KIID::KIID(const std::string&)’:
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:152:41: error: ‘randomGenerator’ cannot be used as a function
  152 |                 m_uuid = randomGenerator();
      |                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp: In member function ‘size_t KIID::Hash() const’:
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:244:36: error: invalid cast from type ‘const boost::uuids::uuid::data_type’ to type ‘const uint32_t*’ {aka ‘const unsigned int*’}
  244 |         boost::hash_combine( hash, reinterpret_cast<const uint32_t*>( m_uuid.data )[i] );
      |                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp: In member function ‘void KIID::ConvertTimestampToUuid()’:
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:275:41: error: ‘randomGenerator’ cannot be used as a function
  275 |     m_uuid             = randomGenerator();
      |                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp: In static member function ‘static void KIID::SeedGenerator(unsigned int)’:
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:302:5: error: ‘rng’ was not declared in this scope
  302 |     rng.seed( aSeed );
      |     ^~~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:303:67: error: ‘mt19937’ is not a member of ‘boost’; did you mean ‘std::mt19937’?
  303 |     randomGenerator = boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937>( rng );
      |                                                                   ^~~~~~~
/usr/include/c++/14.2.0/bits/random.h:1717:37: note: ‘std::mt19937’ declared here
 1717 |     0xefc60000UL, 18, 1812433253UL> mt19937;
      |                                     ^~~~~~~
/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0.5/common/kiid.cpp:303:74: error: template argument 1 is invalid
  303 |     randomGenerator = boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937>( rng );
      |                                                                          ^
make[2]: *** [common/CMakeFiles/kicommon.dir/build.make:702: common/CMakeFiles/kicommon.dir/kiid.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3256: common/CMakeFiles/kicommon.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2

Is it a problem with boost version or so ?

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I can’t help with this compile stuff, but I changed your text from a “blockquote” to “Preformatted text”, as this preserves indentation and does not add other formatting such as strikethrough.

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Boost made some backwards incompatible changes in 1.86. If you are using Boost 1.86, you’ll need to patch in a handful of commits from after the 8.0.5 tag to get KiCad to build. I think there are 3 needed:

Alternatively you could just build the head of the 8.0 branch instead of the 8.0.5 tag.

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I entered these 3 changes to corresponding files, now KiCAD compiles as always, at this moment I have 15% progression. Must wait an hour or 2 for final result . . .

Edit: compilation went fine, thanks for the suggestions !

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