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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Help on "C++ Programming with MacApp" book needed
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.204618.6045@jhereg.osa.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 20:46:18 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.161029.16931@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <9612@hub.ucsb.edu>
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In article <9612@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dtam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Marc "Tae-Kwon" Tamsky) writes:
>
>I have the same problem with MacApp and C++... I get:
>### Link: Error: Main code (-m option) name not found. (Error 53) %__MAIN
>### Link: Error: No Main code module or entry point. (Error 38)
>### Link: Errors prevented normal completion.
>
>on every compile using MABuild.
>
>I'm using System 6.0.5 on a IIfx, MultiFinder, MPWShell3.2b8,
>MacApp2.0.1, C++ v3.1, C v3.1.
>
>I was about to send a message to apple, but I hope someone
>has a solution that they can share.
>
>Thanks,
>Marc Tamsky.
>6600dtam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
>
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I answered this same question about three weeks ago. Maybe we should put
together a really solid solution to it, and include it in a FAQ file.

The problem is your symbol table is getting overwritten. Go into the
command line options for the C++ compiler and the linker and turn on all
options that will dump informatin about symbol tables. You will see that
the first few entries get corrupted, depending on the amount of code you
are compiling. It's been so long since I solved this problem that I do not
remember what the solution is, exactly. I think it has to do with
increasing the size of the MPW memory, adding -mf to the linker options,
increasing the size of the MPW stack (see Appendix I in the Vol 1 manual),
or updating the compiler version.

Someone with more recent experience should give more specific help with
this. Please EMail me the solution, and I will save it for the next guy who
finds this bug.
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Andrew C. Esh			andrew@osa.com
Open Systems Architects, Inc.	
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