Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:08:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From: pad2369 <pad2369 AT iperbole DOT bologna DOT it>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman DOT sauerbeck AT gmx DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: cannot compile this code; although it should work
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Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman DOT sauerbeck AT gmx DOT ch>:

> > I tried to compile it, but I could not because one
> > file is missing: formatbitstream.h
>
> Okay, the error messages are for example:
> ...
> line 518 "thePH" undeclared (first use in this 
> function)
> line 534 Parse Error before "*"
> line 535 Parse Error before "*"
> line 536 Parse Error before "myElement"
> ...
>
> This is just an extract of the error messages. 

OK. 

Line 534 says:
BF_PartHolder *BF_addEntry( BF_PartHolder *thePH, 
u_int value, u_int length )

``Parse error before "*" '' means that somehow the 
structure BF_PartHolder is unknown to the compiler when 
it reaches that line.

The same can be said about the following errors.

It seems like the problems is in the definition of 
those struct's in the .h file...

> I tried to pipe them into a
> text file but that didn't work. 

This is because gcc sends error messages to the stderr 
stream and not stdout. You must redirect messages to 
stderr in order to pipe them to a file

try using redir.exe, like this:

redir -eo gcc -c ... >  errors.txt

where ``...'' means the rest of the command you are 
using to compile.

> I attatched the Header-File, too.

Unfortunately, the .h file includes another one: 
machine.h! :-)

I tried to compile replacing the #include "machine.h"
line with two typedef's for u_int and u_short. 

I then tried to compile and I had *no* errors. It seems
that the problem is caused by this machine.h file.

Post the exact list of error messages and machine.h.

ciao
  Giacomo
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Giacomo Degli Esposti - pad2369 AT iperbole DOT bologna DOT it