From: efti AT ihug DOT com DOT au
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Unable to declare FILE pointer
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:22:53 GMT
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Hi,

I am totally new to C, but still I think this isn't my fault. I have installed
DJGPP and gcc + gpp (amongst others) onto a Win2k machine and a Win95 machine.
When I try to compile this with "gcc -o wpp.exe wpp.c":

#include <stdio.h>

#define TRUE	1
#define FALSE	0
#define OPTION_SWITCH '-'
#define BEGIN_DIRECTIVE '~'

#define VERSION	"0.0.1"
#define DEBUG	TRUE


enum {SUCCESS, ERROR}; // set named constants for SUCCESS (0) AND ERROR (1)



// Stuff...

int openinput(char *filename) //open input file
{

  FILE *fptr; // This is line 33 that returns parse error before `*'
  int result = SUCCESS;
  
  if((fptr = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) {
     printf("Cannot open input file: %s\n",filename);
     result = ERROR;

// more stuff...

And I get this

wpp.c: In function `openinput':
wpp.c:33: parse error before `*'
wpp.c:36: `fptr' undeclared (first use in this function)
wpp.c:36: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
wpp.c:36: for each function it appears in.)
wpp.c:38: `result' undeclared (first use in this function)

My question is: WHY??? does not gcc recognise the FILE type definition for what
it is? Is there a problem with my stdio.h that came with djgpp or is this a gcc
problem or am I totally nuts or WHAT IS GOING ON???

As far as I (and my reference book and all the stuff I looked up on the web)
know, this is perfectly legal in C isn't it:

#include <stdio.h>