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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems compiling Gnuplot w/ TC 2.0
Keywords: linking, error, Gnuplot, TC 2.0
Message-ID: <25879@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 89 14:39:36 GMT
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davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) <1077@lakesys.UUCP> :
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-Hi there,
-After unsharing the Gnuplot sources (and then archiving them with zoo and
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the source of the problem, in a sense.

-downloading them to my PC), I tried to compile it with TC 2.0 (renaming the
-necessary makefile, of course).  It compiled ok, but, when it tried to link it,
-I got "Undefined symbol '_MAIN' in module C0L" and it stopped cold..   What's


I've been bitten by this a few times, and it's rally frosting me.
What's happening is that TC2.0 (unlike previous versions) no longer
accepts lines that are delimited by ^J only --- it demands ^M^J.  By
archiving on a probably-UNIX machine, then unarchiving to MSDOS, your
source files didn't get the end-of-lines converted.

I don't know why TC compiles without errors, but if you look at the .OBJ
files I believe yo'll see that they're way too small.  Basically there
isn't anything to link, including any _main().  Fix up the ^J's and you
should be okay.

TC2.0 also made one executable grow by 25% over TC1.5.  I think Borland
has convinced me not to "upgrade" to inferior successor packages.