Declaration for an object? [Solved]

[tasmod]

EDIT: See next post.

Trust that is correct title?

I've reached the point where a compiling error is now referencing an .h custom library which has me baffled for now. I'm not familiar yet with what is happening with the error messages in the compiler regarding a library.
Anyway here's a contracted description.

Instructions with the library are to add a line to the 'int main' function thus:

Code: Select all

  psession* mysession;

where mysession is an object(?)

There is a struct in the library:

Code: Select all

typedef struct { blah blah blah } psession;

Now, I have a function that uses mysession so I figured that the psession* mysession should be in that function (all examples supplied with the library use 'main')

That threw up an error during compiling about undefined references in the library.
Putting it back in 'main' then only threw up one error, 'mysession' undeclared, in my code 'function'.

Now, I'm not sure how to declare it. I've tried finding help references through the 'net regarding

Code: Select all

 blah* blah2

shall we say,but I have had no joy.

None of the examples supplied with the library use anything but a code sample using 'int main' only.
There are executables of each example and the corresponding .c file to go with it.

Interestingly trying to compile an example .c file threw up just such a first error regarding undefined referencing to the library call functions (i.e. functions in library, not in the code)???
Yet the example executables work?

Anyone any ideas from this cryptic clue puzzle?

[tasmod]

Well a complete change.

Reading the one page text manual I realised the sample code line calling 'mysession' was different to the manual.

the manual had

Code: Select all

err = pbegin(vertoo, blutoo, lamp, psession** &mysession);

Where the sample code had ' psession** ' missing.

So, I inserted the ' psession** ' into my function err line and also added the line

Code: Select all

psession* mysession 

in my function instead of in 'int main'

Now it errors in compiler with the message " expected expression before psession** "

[tasmod]

OK, code is incorrect in manual but correct in examples.

popsession** is not needed in the line.

The rest of my compile errors are down to the compiler not recognising the lib? Or my ineptitude in using it!

This according to the helpful guys on the C forum.

Aren't compiler error messages so descriptive, NOT !!!

[tasmod]

OK for any readers interested. It was a compiling error. Although erroneous documentation doesn't help.

The library I intended to use had multiple compiling options at creation and I had chosen the wrong one. It left out of the library some of the functions I was calling.

Recompiled the library to suit and my app compiles without error.