Hi, while playing with TinyPTC (yes I don't give up on it!) I had the
following problem:

d:\develop\dmd\samples\tinypc]dmd voxel.d tinyptc.obj
link voxel+tinyptc,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

tinyptc.obj(tinyptc)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_win32_RECT
tinyptc.obj(tinyptc)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_win32_MSG
--- errorlevel 2


Strange... I had a look at the win32.d sources and RECT and MSG are structs. So this __init* stuff should be added by the compiler (to initialize the data members?) and it seems as this functions are missing. So what's the problem here? Is it a compiler but? Am I missing some link files?

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Robert M. Münch wrote:

> Hi, while playing with TinyPTC (yes I don't give up on it!) I had the
> following problem:
> 
> d:\develop\dmd\samples\tinypc]dmd voxel.d tinyptc.obj
> link voxel+tinyptc,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
> 
> tinyptc.obj(tinyptc)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_win32_RECT
> tinyptc.obj(tinyptc)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_win32_MSG
> --- errorlevel 2
> 
> 
> Strange... I had a look at the win32.d sources and RECT and MSG are structs.
> So this __init* stuff should be added by the compiler (to initialize the
> data members?) and it seems as this functions are missing. So what's the
> problem here? Is it a compiler but? Am I missing some link files?

Pavel earlier told you to rename windows.d to win32.d, and you've done that.  But win32.obj is in no library, so you have to include it in the compile command, such as with this exact line, nothing different, with all these files in the current directory:

    dmd voxel.d tinyptc.d win32.d win32util.d

The compiler will search for module dependencies when compiling the source, but needs its hand held during link time.  So it can't tell that it needs win32.d for linking - the only thing the linker knows is that it can't find these symbols when it looks for them.

"Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3D26E0C5.4060209@users.sourceforge.net...

> Pavel earlier told you to rename windows.d to win32.d, and you've done that.  But win32.obj is in no library, so you have to include it in the compile command, such as with this exact line, nothing different, with all these files in the current directory:
>
>      dmd voxel.d tinyptc.d win32.d win32util.d
>
> The compiler will search for module dependencies when compiling the source, but needs its hand held during link time.  So it can't tell that it needs win32.d for linking - the only thing the linker knows is that it can't find these symbols when it looks for them.

Hi, ok thanks. I just didn't understood it the first time :-||. Robert

This is the kind of thing I believe could be greatly improved with compiler design.  Surely the compiler could embed enough info in the .OBJ files that the linker could find everything it needs during link without having its hand held.

Sean

"Robert M. Münch" <robert.muench@robertmuench.de> wrote in message news:ag714u$127s$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3D26E0C5.4060209@users.sourceforge.net...
>
> > Pavel earlier told you to rename windows.d to win32.d, and you've done that.  But win32.obj is in no library, so you have to include it in the compile command, such as with this exact line, nothing different, with all these files in the current directory:
> >
> >      dmd voxel.d tinyptc.d win32.d win32util.d
> >
> > The compiler will search for module dependencies when compiling the source, but needs its hand held during link time.  So it can't tell that it needs win32.d for linking - the only thing the linker knows is that it can't find these symbols when it looks for them.
>
> Hi, ok thanks. I just didn't understood it the first time :-||. Robert