Amiga Shopper C Guide Book - Using Amiga libraries Example

[jonesypeter]

Hello,

I'm working through the Amiga Shopper C Guide Book, and have a problem with the example in the 'Using Amiga libraries' section. I have been looking at the code for a couple of days on and off and can't find what is wrong.

https://pastebin.com/DcN57h21

The error I get is DLINK Error: E:36 Undefined Symbol : _If (T:Window)

I'm using DICE C v3 Cutdown that game with Amiga Shopper.

Can anyone help please?

Thank you in advance

[Leffmann]

It's a linker error, and if it's a cut down version of DICE like you say, then it might not come with all the linker libraries needed.

You could try removing the clib/ lines and adding these:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <proto/intuition.h>
#include <proto/exec.h>
#include <proto/graphics.h>

IMO it's better to switch to SAS/C, there's a complete v6.58 download here in the forums.

[Daedalus]

I have that book, and don't remember having any issues with any of the examples in the book. Have you run any startup scripts or made the assigns that Dice needs? It's a long time since I installed it but you could be missing a drawer or something. You could also check that DCC is in the bin drawer and not in C: as that will mess with the relative paths.

Switching to a newer environment might be a good idea in general, but at the same time there's no reason that shouldn't work, other than some issue with the setup configuration.

[jonesypeter]

Thanks everyone for the tips. I have checked that those paths for the includes exist in the directory structure and the startup file in the s folder contains a path to the include folder.

The only thing I did odd was edit it in notepad++ in windows and then copy back to my WinUAE Hard Disk folder. All the other 'Command Line' Examples have worked.

[Leffmann]

It's not that the header files are missing, because the program compiles, rather it fails during linking.

The error message says that a symbol "If" can't be found during linking. Did you accidentaly type If with a capital 'I' somewhere maybe?

Last thing I can think of is to check that the character encoding in Notepad++ is set to ISO 8859-1.

[idrougge]

And that Notepad++ doesn't use Windows CR/LF line ends.

[jonesypeter]

Thanks everyone, I think it was a combination of a restricted version of DICE, and a space where I should not have had one. All OK now.