Re: [Libphidget-devel] At loss with C...

[Jack S. <js...@ja...>]

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 16:15, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here:
> 
> gcc -DPACKAGE=\"phidget\" -DVERSION=\"0.1p0\" -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1
> -DHAVE_LIBUSB=1  -I. -I.      -I../libphidget -L../libphidget -c phidget_c.c
> phidget_c.c: In function 
> ain':
> phidget_c.c:31: parse error before `struct'
> phidget_c.c:39: `phidgets' undeclared (first use in this function)
> phidget_c.c:39: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> phidget_c.c:39: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [phidget_c.o] Error 1
> 
> Makefile.am:
> 
> --------8<------------------------------------
> bin_PROGRAMS = phidget_c phidget_cpp
> 
> phidget_c_SOURCES = phidget_c.c
>   
> phidget_c_LDADD = ../libphidget/libphidget.la
> phidget_c_DEPENDENCIES = ../libphidget/libphidget.la
> 
> phidget_cpp_SOURCES = phidget_cpp.cpp
>                        
> phidget_cpp_LDADD = ../libphidget/libphidget++.la
> phidget_cpp_DEPENDENCIES = ../libphidget/libphidget++.la
>                                                                         
> CFLAGS = -I../libphidget -L../libphidget
> CXXFLAGS = -I../libphidget -I../phidget++ -L../libphidget -L../phidget++
> --------8<------------------------------------
> 
> phidget_c.c is former main.c, phidget_cpp.cc is former main.cc - to avoid
> the name clash. Nothing's been changed inside.
> 
> Now, my guess at the error is that now it is being compiled strictly as C,
> and therefore &count doesn't count as a valid expression. Is this right? Or
> the problem is somewhere else?
> 
> I don't want to commit the code that doesn't compile...

&count should be fine.  that's just getting the address of count.

I saw the same error when I tried to compile it on another box I have
that I just installed Gentoo on.  I'll play around and see what's wrong.