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On 4/10/2012 3:44 PM, samuel.roy wrote:
> Hello,
> I am very new to Cygwin and have little to no experience with programming.
> My professor gave me code for a landscape evolution modeling program written
> in C++. I am trying to compile the program so that I can run it as an
> executable file through the command prompt on my Windows machine. He wrote
> the code on a mac, but he says that it can be compiled on a pc when using
> Cygwin. I installed Cygwin version 1.7.5 (according to the website) with
> devel (in order to get the make utility and to be compatible with gcc and
> g++). I am trying to use the make tool to compile the code from a given make
> file (childi.mk) which is supposed to compile a laundry list of scripts
> included in the uploaded zip file. When I run:
> make -f childi.mk
>
> from the source directory, it begins to compile but catches on a warning:
> A problem arises when the makefile script gets to tmesh.cpp, line 3982:3,
> with the warning "the address of triVal will never be NULL".
> Make then fails to create an executable file: "make *** [childInterface.o]
> Error 1".
> The line in question from tmesh.cpp is:  "if(&triVal == 0 ) return 0;".
>
> As I mentioned previously, I have no experience with programming and my only
> intent here is to be able to create an executable file from the given code
> and makefile. I noticed that a cmake file is also present, but I am unable
> to get that to work and understand it even less. Does anyone have any
> suggestions on how to successfully use Cygwin to create an exe file from the
> given C++ code?
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Sam
>
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p33664890/Code.zip Code.zip
These are excellent questions to ask your professor! This is not a place 
to get help with your homework.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than standing in 
a garage makes you a car.


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