X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.232.190
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Djgpp C compiler regEx comilation PB
Organization: Systematic Software
Message-ID: <tcv0m217rdfvg6e3n0k2sbuivqeeh3c89g@4ax.com>
References: <45605ffa$0$2291$426a34cc AT news DOT free DOT fr>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 52
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:05:05 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.59.135.176
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT shaw DOT ca
X-Trace: pd7urf3no 1163952305 64.59.135.176 (Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:05:05 MST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:05:05 MST
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:45:05 +0100 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, "Martin
Boulte" <martin DOT boulte AT free DOT fr> wrote:

>Hi guy,
>I try to compile the myGrep.c program I found on Web at this site
>http://linuxgazette.net/issue55/tindale.html
>which uses regular expression and include regex.h.
>
>I get the following message :
>
>In file included from myGrep.c:11:
>c:/djgpp/include/regex.h:17: syntax error before "regoff_t"
>c:/djgpp/include/regex.h:25: syntax error before "regoff_t"
>c:/djgpp/include/regex.h:66: syntax error before "regmatch_t"
>
>In fact, when I go through regex.h, I get this :

>#ifdef __cplusplus
>extern "C" {
>#endif

>....
>
>#ifdef __cplusplus
>}
>#endif

>which means that if I don't define C++ I do not get regex declaration.
>Does it mean that regex declaration is available only in C++ ?

You are mistaken: those header lines make the definitions valid when
used with a C++ translator as well as a C translator. 

>The first declare error comes from typedef off_t regoff_t

Insert:
#include <sys/types.h>
before:
#include <regex.h>

and while you're there, correct:
#include <strings.h>
to
#include <string.h>
as the former is non-standard (none of the functions document their
declaration in the former) and merely includes the latter. 

-- 
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis 	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com 	(Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca)
    fake address		use address above to reply