Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" Organization: INTI To: abroomsg AT cix DOT co DOT uk (Andy Broomsgove), djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:33:33 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: RHIDE error message In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com abroomsg AT cix DOT co DOT uk (Andy Broomsgove) wrote: > In article <3622691E DOT 89B94A5C AT cartsys DOT com>, nate AT cartsys DOT com (Nate > Eldredge) wrote: > > > Andy Broomsgove wrote: > > > > > Now I can't see any syntax errors in what I've done and I certainly > > > haven't written more than one main function so can anybody tell me > > > anything about this? > > > > Post the source, please, as well as an RHIDE bug report which gives many > > useful details. > > > The full source is a bit long to post, but appended is a slimmed down > version (which still exhibits the same problem). The complex file > structure is due to the fact that (as I think I said before) this is the > start of writing version 2 of a program which is used to control > theatrical lighting. Version 1 runs to some 12,000 lines of code, Version > 2 is estimated at 17,000 - 20,000 lines and I am presently proposing to > use RHIDE as the development environment for it. The program concerned is > a dos based program and developing version 1 in a windows programming > environment was a real PITA. What files are listed in the project? (send me a .zip with the project and the files copied in this mail). > > > Or is it just that RHIDE is full of bugs and nobody uses it? > > > > No, it's widely used, and it interfaces to the same compiler everybody > > else uses. > > -- > > Ok fine. I realise it uses the same compiler. I am moving to djgpp because > someone I know recommended it, but I knew nothing of RHIDE beyond the fact > that it was there to download. > > A possible explanation for the problems I am experiencing is some error in > the way RHIDE creates/maintains a project (ie it might be trying to link > andylx.c twice, hence creating the "mutiple definition of main" error). Only if you included andylx.c and andylx.o in the same project. > If it's widely used then it's more likely that I have done something wrong > in the way I have set the project up or arranged the files. Yes. > I am sure you are aware that the documentation for RHIDE is almost non > existent. Really? 213Kb for the IDE and 137Kb for the editor doesn't look "almost non existent". SET ------------------------------------ 0 -------------------------------- Visit my home page: http://set-soft.home.ml.org/ or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT usa DOT net set AT computer DOT org ICQ: 2951574 Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA TE: +(541) 759 0013