Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/19/13:32:29
abroomsg AT cix DOT co DOT uk (Andy Broomsgove) wrote:
> In article <3622691E DOT 89B94A5C AT cartsys DOT com>, nate AT cartsys DOT com (Nate
> Eldredge) wrote:
>
> > Andy Broomsgove wrote:
> >
> > > Now I can't see any syntax errors in what I've done and I certainly
> > > haven't written more than one main function so can anybody tell me
> > > anything about this?
> >
> > Post the source, please, as well as an RHIDE bug report which gives many
> > useful details.
>
>
> The full source is a bit long to post, but appended is a slimmed down
> version (which still exhibits the same problem). The complex file
> structure is due to the fact that (as I think I said before) this is the
> start of writing version 2 of a program which is used to control
> theatrical lighting. Version 1 runs to some 12,000 lines of code, Version
> 2 is estimated at 17,000 - 20,000 lines and I am presently proposing to
> use RHIDE as the development environment for it. The program concerned is
> a dos based program and developing version 1 in a windows programming
> environment was a real PITA.
What files are listed in the project? (send me a .zip with the project and
the files copied in this mail).
> > > Or is it just that RHIDE is full of bugs and nobody uses it?
> >
> > No, it's widely used, and it interfaces to the same compiler everybody
> > else uses.
> > --
>
> Ok fine. I realise it uses the same compiler. I am moving to djgpp because
> someone I know recommended it, but I knew nothing of RHIDE beyond the fact
> that it was there to download.
>
> A possible explanation for the problems I am experiencing is some error in
> the way RHIDE creates/maintains a project (ie it might be trying to link
> andylx.c twice, hence creating the "mutiple definition of main" error).
Only if you included andylx.c and andylx.o in the same project.
> If it's widely used then it's more likely that I have done something wrong
> in the way I have set the project up or arranged the files.
Yes.
> I am sure you are aware that the documentation for RHIDE is almost non
> existent.
Really? 213Kb for the IDE and 137Kb for the editor doesn't look "almost non
existent".
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