From:	"psn" <ae561 AT dial DOT pipex DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	using RHIDE to build a an EXE with user librarys
Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:30:51 +0100
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Hi,

Firstly, I would like to apologise if I am being a little stupid, but this
problem has completely stumped me!

I am trying to build a .EXE file in RHIDE - but I just cannot make the darn
thing link.

This is what I have got...

program.gpr  - a project file containing a few source files including one
with a the all important main() function.
libwins.grp - a project file containing source files which contain some
related user library functions. I have built this and produced libwins.a
libstuff.grp - as above and built to produce libstuff.a

The source files for each library are in separate folders along with their
associated project file. The libxxx.a files are in \lib. I get no errors
when I build the libraries -so far, so good!

I have included alleg, wins and stuff in the include list for program. I
have set up all the directories for source, objects and libraries in RHIDE.
When I click on build all, I get linker errors due to unresolved references.
It just will not have it. I know I must be doing something daft but I just
can't put my finger on it. I have read the FAQ's and the RHIDE help text
with no luck.

The files in program.gpr obviously include calls to functions in both
libwins.a and libstuff.a. There are also some allegro function calls. The
user libraries do rely on each others existence and also contain calls to
allegro. This is a chicken and egg scenario which I had expected to be
solved by multiple passes by the linker,

If anyone has any ideas please let me know - It's a pretty fundamental
problem so the solution must be simple.

Thanks

Tim

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