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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: abroomsg AT cix DOT co DOT uk (Andy Broomsgove), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:33:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: RHIDE error message
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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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