From: "Ron Grunwald" <RGRUNWAL AT wasp DOT cs DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Organization:  Edith Cowan University
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, gwong AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au (Geoffrey  Wong)
Date:          Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:18:56 GMT+800
Subject:       Re: <none>
Reply-To: r DOT grunwald AT cowan DOT edu DOT au

> Hi, I am wondering if anyone out there can help me.
> 
> I have a type defined as:-
> 
> double drand48();
> 
> Now as far as I know, this is perfectly Okay in Unix, and drand48()
> would take on some random floating point value.
> 
> But when I compile it under DOS using djgpp's gcc. It complains:-
> 
> c:\ilp\foil>make
> Ndmake:  warning -- VPATH directory `bin' unsearchable or empty.
> Ndmake:  warning -- VPATH directory `headers' unsearchable or empty.
> gcc -o foil6 @all.obj -lm
                   ^^^^
Are you using TASM-style object files here? If you are, they will
not link successfully. You will have to compile your source under GCC
and use its .O object file. 

> state.o: In function `OriginalState':
> state.c:126: undefined reference to `drand48'
> state.o: In function `RandomTuple':
> state.c:269: undefined reference to `drand48'
> 
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Is there a DOS equivalent to that, maybe I just need to call up the right
> library.
> 
> Does anyone know the answer?
> 
> Geoff
> 

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