[Coco] Question about compiling C in OS-9

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On Tuesday 13 April 2010 09:05:40 am Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> You're right Bob. I went back and looked at the thread and he does have a
>  main function.  One thing I find puzzling though is that in his c.prep
>  test.c output, the main function did not show up (Todd, I presume that you
>  pasted the entire output of the c.prep command).
> 
> Still there is no doubt at what the linker is telling us. It fails to see a
>  main function which is required for resolving. I would be inclined to run
>  c.prep test.c again and just verify that there is a main function in
>  there.  If not, then I would look at the source itself.  Line ending
>  issues perhaps?
> 
> Boisy
> 
> On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Bob Devries wrote:
> > Boisy, it's obvious from Todd's first post that he does indeed have a
> > reference to main.
> >
> > Could it be a compile time memory problem? Seems odd for such a short
> > programme segment.
> >
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> >
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> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Question about compiling C in OS-9
> >
> >> Todd,
> >>
> >> The error from the linker is stating that main is an unresolved
> >> reference, and it s being referenced from the psect named "cstart_a"
> >> which resides in /dd/lib/cstart.r.
> >>
> >> Do you have a main function in your test.c program? If not, you need
> >> one.
> >>
> >> Boisy
> >>
> >> On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Todd Wallace wrote:
> >>> Tried what you suggested Stephen.  Same error in the end.  I have both
> >>> cstart.r and clib.l in /DD/LIB.  the captial L flag says it was invalid
> >>> (linker fatal: unknown option -L), so i did the lowercase -l and heres
> >>> the output:
> >>>
> >>> {Term|02}/X1/SOURCES:cc1 test.c -l=/DD/LIB/clib.l
> >>> CC1 VERSION RS 01.00.00
> >>> COPYRIGHT 1983 MICROWARE
> >>> REPRODUCED UNDER LICENSE
> >>> TO TANDY
> >>> 'test.c'
> >>> c.prep:
> >>> c.pass1:
> >>> c.pass2:
> >>> c.opt:
> >>> c.asm:
> >>> c.link:
> >>> Unresolved references:
> >>> main             cstart_a         in /dd/lib/cstart.r
> >>> linker fatal: unresolved references
> >>>
> >>> - Todd Wallace
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:38 PM, Stephen Castello wrote:
> >>>> cc1 test.c -L=[path]/clib.l
> >>>> where [path] is the directory path to clib.l
> >>>> See C-Compiler manual page 1-13.
> >>>
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Hi

I was looking at this thread and noticed a statement with a missing ":" I am 
not a "C" programmer, but I have had some experience with C++. Might want to 
check the sytax. My 2 cents worth.