Problem with -mno-cygwin compile
Mumit Khan
khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU
Tue Feb 22 07:26:00 GMT 2000
Craig Lanning <lanning@scra.org> writes:
>
> My environment is
> Windows 98
> Cygwin b20.1 + 2/21 snapshot
> gcc 2.95.2
>
> If I compile the code below with -mno-cygwin it complains about the
> symbol _environ_dll not being resolved. (I have been seeing this
> problem for a couple of months.) If I compile it without -mno-cygwin
> it works fine. Is there something else I need to do to get it to work
> with -mno-cygwin?
>
> Craig Lanning
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> extern char **environ;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry, but you can't declare environ like this. Just omit the declaration
and you should be fine. The `environ' symbol is a macro and you're
essentially overriding it with your own and the linker can't find the
real thing.
Regards,
Mumit
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