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Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:13:01 -0800
From:	"Robert Blair" <SCOUG-HELP-2lvvuss@listemail.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Building flipit (was GCC432)

** Reply to message from "Steven Levine" on Mon, 3 Nov
2008 12:07:50 -0800

> >I get a link error
>
> >cm17a.o: Undefined symbol _DosDevIOCtl referenced from text segment
>
> The leading underscore implies that the cdecl calling convention was used.
>
> There should have been a warning that DosDevIOCtl was not declared. Was
> there?
>
> You need to use
>
> #define INCL_DOSDEVICES
> #define INCL_DOSDEVIOCTL
> #include

I had INCL_DOSDEVIOCTL but not INCL_DOSDEVICES.
That fixed the problem.
Thanks.

> This will ensure you get the correct declaration for DosDevIOCtl.
>
> You might need to tell configure where to find os2.h.

I haven't a clue where to change the configure file.
I just changed the cm17.c file.

> >It has been a while since I did any c compiles and links but I seem to
> >remember that there is a switch needed so that DosDevIOCtl does not get a
> >underscore prefix.
>
> The underscore is a symptom. It's not the problem.

In this case my memory is a bit faulty. Still I would have expected a message
(such as not defined) of some kind.

--
Robert Blair

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