Re: [Mingw-users] Simple programs failing to compile

[Matthew H. G. <mge...@li...>]

I believe with regular C, you must declare local variables at the top of the
function.  C++ allows you to declare them anywhere.  Try compiling with "g++"

Matthew



Des wrote:

> I've recently switched to MingW32 from DJGPP, and am having a strange
> problem. The following hello program works fine:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>     printf("hello!");
>     return 0;
> }
>
> I build this by using the following command line:
>
> gcc hello.c -o hello.exe
>
> However, any attempt to initialise variables after the call to printf()
> results in a parse error! For example:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>     printf("hello!");
>     int c;
>     return 0;
> }
>
> generates the error:
>
> clever.c: In function `main':
> clever.c:5: parse error before `int'
>
> Anyone know any reason why this could be? Initialising variables prior to
> the printf() call works fine, but for some reason not subsequent to it. Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
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