From: "deckerben" <deckerben AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: thinlib directmedia djgpp library 0.1.1
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:08:37 +0200
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> Usage error, I'd say.  You shouldn't be compiling a C source with the
> C++ compiler.  The error message you got is caused by C++ being
> stricter in some situations than C.  In particular, C++ doesn't allow
> implicit casts to or from pointer-to-void, which C explicitly does.

I wouldn't. I have encountered several instances of source distributions
that 'claim' to compile using GCC but really only work with GPP. I would be
much happier myself if the code compiled using GCC to begin with, but
sometimes I don't have any other choice. But thanks for the clarification,
anyhow.

In this case, there were errors with the .10 port that dissapeared when I
compiled with GPP. I am not sure why i didn't bother to check if GCC worked
with the .11, but it does.

Ben