I am new to C progamming and am having trouble in running a program from
Dev-C++. I have been trying to learn by examining and breaking down example
programs, but my problem comes when I attempt to compile and run an edited
program, even when the edit is trivial (adding a letter to a text string)
I can't seem to add the example code here, but I used the Jackpot program in
the Examples folder. When I run the original, it worked fine. However, I added
the letter "t" to the main() function, so that the title read
" Jackptot game \n". This edit is all I have (consciously) done,
but it seems enought to stop the program running. Before the edit, I moved the
original example files to another directory, so that I wouldn't damage to
originals. The original files still work fine!
I am using version 4.9.9.2 on Windows XP SP2. The compile log shows
Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\Jackpot\Makefile.win"
Executing make...
make.exe -f "C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\Jackpot\Makefile.win" all
make.exe: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Execution terminated
Compilation successful
Any advice or ideas are appreciated.
Ross
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
First copy the examples folder elsewhere (not a sub-folder of C:\Dev-Cpp),
then build the project from there (do a rebuild all initially to clear any
problems from the earlier attempt).
It is a strange bug, but for some reason Dev-C++ does not always work
correctly when projects are created in a subfolder of teh installation folder.
It is not a good place to build your projects in any case, regardless of the
bug.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hi all,
I am new to C progamming and am having trouble in running a program from
Dev-C++. I have been trying to learn by examining and breaking down example
programs, but my problem comes when I attempt to compile and run an edited
program, even when the edit is trivial (adding a letter to a text string)
I can't seem to add the example code here, but I used the Jackpot program in
the Examples folder. When I run the original, it worked fine. However, I added
the letter "t" to the main() function, so that the title read
" Jackptot game \n". This edit is all I have (consciously) done,
but it seems enought to stop the program running. Before the edit, I moved the
original example files to another directory, so that I wouldn't damage to
originals. The original files still work fine!
I am using version 4.9.9.2 on Windows XP SP2. The compile log shows
Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\Jackpot\Makefile.win"
Executing make...
make.exe -f "C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\Jackpot\Makefile.win" all
make.exe: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Execution terminated
Compilation successful
Any advice or ideas are appreciated.
Ross
You need to do a "Rebuild Al" and post the log.
Rebuild All that is
Please do this for a caase in which you are encountering an error
Hi, thanks for the reply.
I just tried a "Rebuild All", and the following appears in the
Compile Log:
Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\Jackpot\Makefile.win"
Executing make clean
rm -f main.o Jackpot.exe
g++.exe -c main.cpp -o main.o -I"C:/Dev-
Cpp/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/include" -I"C:/Dev-
Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/backward" -I"C:/Dev-
Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/mingw32" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2"
-I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include" -mwindows
g++.exe main.o -o "Jackpot.exe" -L"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib"
-mwindows
Execution terminated
Compilation successful
Does this shed any light on things???
Cheers,
Ross
It does.
Do not build the project in C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\
First copy the examples folder elsewhere (not a sub-folder of C:\Dev-Cpp),
then build the project from there (do a rebuild all initially to clear any
problems from the earlier attempt).
It is a strange bug, but for some reason Dev-C++ does not always work
correctly when projects are created in a subfolder of teh installation folder.
It is not a good place to build your projects in any case, regardless of the
bug.
And I'm away!!!! That's working!
Thank you very much for the help!!
Ross