The SDK doesn't work

dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk
Sun, 13 Oct 96 02:30:23 +0100

I've recently got my copy of the SDK, and have been working through the
tutorial. Unfortunately, their instructions don't work, and since I don't know
how the system works and won't until I get started, which I can't, I'm
somewhat stuck. Could anyone give me some advice?

What happens is this. I'm in appl/sdk_c/hello. I've done mkmf and pmake
depend. When I do pmake, however, I get about thirty lines of error messages
about things such like unexpected { or missing ). More worryingly, though,
some of these errors are reported with garbled filenames.

I've inspected the .EC file produced by GOC and it appears to be GOC's fault.
It produces lines like:

#line 304 "hello.goc"

Unfortunately, in the interface section, it's also produced lines like:

#line 304 "(random binary garbage here)"

I don't know if that's confusing BCC but it's certainly confusing something.
The end result is that no C program will compile.

I've tried reinstalling BCC, GOC and the source code. No luck. I've tried
various setups on my machine including bare with no TSR's. No luck. There's
something I'm missing, and I don't know what it is. Does anyone have any
advice?

BTW, the assembly language version worked fine. But I *really* don't want to
have to learn x86 assembly.

Thanks,

David Given
dtrg@st-and.ac.uk

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