I am new to command lines. I can get a simple program to compile using

dmc -c programName

But the link fails with

unrecognised symbol _GetStockObject@4

From my reading of the manual, the likely cause is a missing library. But I have only just downloaded the package, and something as basic as GetStockObject being missing sounds unlikely to me.

Looking at the header files, I noticed this in wtypes.h

#include <win32\scdefs.h>
#include <win32\wtypes.h>

Which leads me to wonder whether I am missing a folder called win32 that ought to be in my dm\lib\ folder.

Or perhaps it's something much simpler and this question is moronic. As I say, I am new to command line stuff.

Any ideas out there?

Bob Whitehouse

bob whitehouse escreveu:
> I am new to command lines. I can get a simple program to compile using
> 
> dmc -c programName
> 
> But the link fails with 
> 
> unrecognised symbol _GetStockObject@4
> 
> From my reading of the manual, the likely cause is a missing library. But I have
> only just downloaded the package, and something as basic as GetStockObject being
> missing sounds unlikely to me. 
> 
> Looking at the header files, I noticed this in wtypes.h
> 
> #include <win32\scdefs.h>
> #include <win32\wtypes.h>
> 
> Which leads me to wonder whether I am missing a folder called win32 that ought
> to be in my dm\lib\ folder.

The (import) library that defines this symbol is gde32.lib, which comes in the standard package (at least dm836c.zip). The include file which pertains to theis symbol is wingdi.h, but normally you should not care of including it, as windows.h does it for you.

HTH


-- 
Cesar Rabak
GNU/Linux User 52247.
Get counted: http://counter.li.org/

In article <3F69ECED.4020803@uol.com.br>, Cesar Rabak says...
>
>bob whitehouse escreveu:
>> I am new to command lines. I can get a simple program to compile using
>> 
>> dmc -c programName
>> 
>> But the link fails with
>> 
>> unrecognised symbol _GetStockObject@4
>> 
>> From my reading of the manual, the likely cause is a missing library. But I have only just downloaded the package, and something as basic as GetStockObject being missing sounds unlikely to me.
>> 
>> Looking at the header files, I noticed this in wtypes.h
>> 
>> #include <win32\scdefs.h>
>> #include <win32\wtypes.h>
>> 
>> Which leads me to wonder whether I am missing a folder called win32 that ought to be in my dm\lib\ folder.
>
>The (import) library that defines this symbol is gde32.lib, which comes in the standard package (at least dm836c.zip). The include file which pertains to theis symbol is wingdi.h, but normally you should not care of including it, as windows.h does it for you.
>
>HTH
>
>
>-- 
>Cesar Rabak
>GNU/Linux User 52247.
>Get counted: http://counter.li.org/
>

Bob Whitehouse
Ex Mac programmer new to Windows