Gtkmm 'no matching function for call' errors

Question

I am a beginner and learning Gtkmm by following their official documentation.

But this example: https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-menus-examples.html.en#menu-example-main

is not working and I am getting these kind of errors:

examplewindow.cc: In constructor ‘ExampleWindow::ExampleWindow()’:
examplewindow.cc:18:67: error: no matching function for call to 
‘Gio::SimpleActionGroup::add_action(const char [12], 
sigc::bound_mem_functor0<void, ExampleWindow>)’
sigc::mem_fun(*this, &ExampleWindow::on_menu_file_new_generic));
                                                               ^

The above error is pointed for this bit of code:

refActionGroup->add_action("newstandard",
sigc::mem_fun(*this, &ExampleWindow::on_menu_file_new_generic));

But "on_menu_file_new_generic" function does exist. So if the callback function does exist, then how come it says 'no matching function'?

Any help?

Compiles fine here. Are you sure you are using 3.0 and not 2.0 version of gtkmm? (the error complains about `add_action`, not about `on_menu_file_new_generic`). — n. m. could be an AI, Jul 04 '14 at 13:46
@n.m. Yes I am compiling using 3.0 `g++ main.cc examplewindow.cc -o run `pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs` — Gurjot Bhatti, Jul 04 '14 at 14:12
Also please show the entire error message set, not just the first few lines. — n. m. could be an AI, Jul 04 '14 at 14:22
gcc version 4.8.1 Here is the full error message: [http://pastebin.com/TZEDbhDr ] — Gurjot Bhatti, Jul 04 '14 at 14:38
Can you try to compile this simple file: http://pastebin.com/6KgftTHF ? Do you get any errors? — n. m. could be an AI, Jul 04 '14 at 15:09
@n.m. No errors with `g++ a.cpp -c pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs` — Gurjot Bhatti, Jul 04 '14 at 15:17
Are you sure you are compiling the exact code shown on that page? Can you preprocess your example with `gcc -E` and upload it somewhere? — n. m. could be an AI, Jul 04 '14 at 15:22
@n.m. Yes the same exact code. Is this is what you are asking? [ http://202.164.53.122/~gurjot/log ] — Gurjot Bhatti, Jul 04 '14 at 15:36
I was trying another way to do that, and even if the code should be as it is, it still gives the same error. — Gurjot Bhatti, Jul 04 '14 at 17:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '14 at 17:16

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This error occurs because of older version of glibmm library. My current version of glibmm is 2.37.4 that does not support this method.

This overloaded add_action() method first appeared in glibmm 2.37.6, so in order to get past this error I need to install newer version of glibmm.

Hope others will be able to resolve their errors as well.

answered Jul 04 '14 at 17:16

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And if you want to stick with your current version of glibmm, then I suggest you follow this example https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm-documentation/tree/examples/book/menus/main_menu?h=gtkmm-3-2 – Gurjot Bhatti Jul 04 '14 at 17:29

Gtkmm 'no matching function for call' errors

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