From: boylesgj AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au (Gregary J Boyles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: PDCurses problem.
Date: 16 Feb 1997 04:18:16 GMT
Organization: Comp.Sci & Comp.Eng, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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Trying to link curses into a program.
Command line was : gxx -otest.exe test.cc string.o curswin.cc -lcurs

Produced : 

In file included from curswin.hh:18,
                 from test.cc:55:
d:/djgpp/include/curses.h:426: warning: abstract declarator used as declaration
In file included from curswin.hh:18,
                 from curswin.cc:14:
d:/djgpp/include/curses.h:426: warning: abstract declarator used as declaration
C:\DOS\ccdaaaaa(.text+0x152):test.cc: undefined reference to `werase(_win *)'
C:\DOS\ccdaaaaa(.text+0x16c):test.cc: undefined reference to `wrefresh(_win *)'
C:\DOS\ccdaaaaa(.text+0x1be):test.cc: undefined reference to `wattrset(_win *, unsigned long)'
C:\DOS\ccdaaaaa(.text+0x1e9):test.cc: undefined reference to `wattrset(_win *, unsigned long)'
C:\DOS\ccdaaaaa(.text+0x208):test.cc: undefined reference to `delwin(_win *)'
C:\DOS\ccdaaaaa(.text+0x214):test.cc: undefined reference to `delwin(_win *)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x18):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `initscr(void)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x1d):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `start_color(void)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x29):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `raw(void)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x34):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `endwin(void)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0xc9):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `newwin(int, int, int, int)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x201):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `newwin(int, int, int, int)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x2dd):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `newwin(int, int, int, int)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x303):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `overwrite(_win *, _win *)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x387):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `delwin(_win *)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x3a1):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `newwin(int, int, int, int)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x3c0):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `overwrite(_win *, _win *)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0x94e):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `werase(_win *)'
C:\DOS\cceaaaaa(.text+0xa04):curswin.cc: undefined reference to `init_pair(short, short, short)'

What does the c:\dos\cceaaaaa nonsense mean and why can't the compiler
find the functions?

Also how would I rebuild the curses archive file (libcurs.a) from all the
object files. I read the info page for ar and it is useless because it has
no examples. I tried dozens of command lines but ar did not recognize any
of them. The info pages don't properley explain how to pass the options
and file names to ar.