In the soon-to-be-released Pantheios logging library, one of the libraries is dependent on a symbol that the executable defines.

This is a no-brainer for all the other supported compilers, but I get the following from DMC++:

        link -DELEXECUTABLE -NOLOGO
.\test_api.debug.obj,"..\..\bin\pantheios.test_api--be.fprintf.dm.debug.exe",,..\..\lib\pantheios.core.dm.debug.lib+..\..\l
ib\pantheios.fe.simple.dm.debug.lib+..\..\lib\pantheios.be.fprintf.dm.debug.lib+..\..\lib\pantheios.bec.fprintf.dm.debug.lib
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

..\..\lib\pantheios.fe.simple.dm.debug.lib(fe_simple)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _FE_SIMPLE_PROCESS_IDENTITY
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

Is this a known 'feature' of DMC++/Optlink? Is a fix possible?

Cheers


-- 
Matthew Wilson

Author: "Extended STL", Addison-Wesley, 2006
    (http://www.extendedstl.com)
Author: "Imperfect C++", Addison-Wesley, 2004
    (http://www.imperfectcplusplus.com)
Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
    (http://www.synesis.com.au/articles.html#columns)
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More on this: If I change the definition in the executable's main source file from

extern "C" const char FE_SIMPLE_PROCESS_IDENTITY[] = "test_api";

to

extern "C" const char *FE_SIMPLE_PROCESS_IDENTITY  = "test_api";

then it works (and DMC++ now appears to fully support Pantheios, which is pretty nice news <g>). This definitely smells like a bug to me, though I concede there may be a rism of minutae in the standard that I've overlooked which backs up DMC++'s behaviour in the matter.

Either way, if you can let me know whether DMC++ is correct, or whether it's wrong and when a fix may be forthcoming, it'll help with the Pantheios release.

Cheers

Matthew


"Matthew" <admin.hat@stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:dc2m0m$1n0q$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In the soon-to-be-released Pantheios logging library, one of the libraries is dependent on a symbol that the executable defines.
>
> This is a no-brainer for all the other supported compilers, but I get the following from DMC++:
>
>        link -DELEXECUTABLE -NOLOGO
> .\test_api.debug.obj,"..\..\bin\pantheios.test_api--be.fprintf.dm.debug.exe",,..\..\lib\pantheios.core.dm.debug.lib+..\..\l
> ib\pantheios.fe.simple.dm.debug.lib+..\..\lib\pantheios.be.fprintf.dm.debug.lib+..\..\lib\pantheios.bec.fprintf.dm.debug.lib
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
>
> ..\..\lib\pantheios.fe.simple.dm.debug.lib(fe_simple)
> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _FE_SIMPLE_PROCESS_IDENTITY
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
>
> Is this a known 'feature' of DMC++/Optlink? Is a fix possible?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> -- 
> Matthew Wilson
>
> Author: "Extended STL", Addison-Wesley, 2006
>    (http://www.extendedstl.com)
> Author: "Imperfect C++", Addison-Wesley, 2004
>    (http://www.imperfectcplusplus.com)
> Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
>    (http://www.synesis.com.au/articles.html#columns)
> Director, Synesis Software
>    (www.synesis.com.au)
> STLSoft moderator
>    (http://www.stlsoft.org)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>