Library Usage Problems (I think)

Rabbit
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I’m getting started with DC (I know “regular” C quite well) and I’m having problems when I try to “#use” a library. The two that are currently giving me problems are RS232.LIB and STRING.LIB. Both of these give me a compile error telling me about duplicate names.

In RS232.LIB, the duplicate is RS232_echo and in STRING.LIB it’s _xtoxErr. The only other library I’m using is one that I’m writing and it doesn’t use or reference either of these routines. In fact, I haven’t started coding ANY of the RS232 routines yet, I just added the #use statement to my main.c file and tried to compile.

What am I doing wrong here? It also says “First one ignored…” on the error line but it stops compiling and just stops there.

len morgan

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Dont include those libraries. They are implicitly included already for you in your LIB.DIR file. I know it’s a bit non standard.

3

Thanks, that solved the error message problem. Does your answer indicate that ANY library listed in LIB.DIR doesn’t have to be included with a “#use” statement?

len morgan

4

That is correct.
Furthermore when you write your own libraries, you have to place a entry for each in the LIB.DIR file, and #use them in your program.
I refer you to the Dynamic C User manual page 38
“Most libraries needed by Dynamic C programs have a #use statement in the file
lib\default.h.”