"Erreur" messages when trying to compile

"Erreur" messages when trying to compile

[jere95]

Hi,
I am new to programming and I downloaded cygwin, because I heard it was a
good gcc compiler. At the moment I am reading this O'reilly book on C, and I
tried compiling the folowing exemple programme out of the book :

When I try to compile, this c file, typing : /gcc cards.c -o cards/ , the
cygwin terminal answers :



What is the problem?



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Re: "Erreur" messages when trying to compile

[Jack]

On 2013.02.18 09:26, jere95 wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to programming and I downloaded cygwin, because I heard it  
> was a
> good gcc compiler. At the moment I am reading this O'reilly book on  
> C, and I
> tried compiling the folowing exemple programme out of the book :
> 
> When I try to compile, this c file, typing : /gcc cards.c -o cards/ ,  
> the
> cygwin terminal answers :
> 
> 
> 
> What is the problem?
For some reason, your examples are not coming through to the mailing  
list.

However, it looks like the messages are very clear.  You seem to be  
using "(" (left parenthesis) instead of "{" (left curly brace) on many  
lines.  gcc is expecting a closing parenthesis before the next  
semicolon, and it is expecting a semicolon  before the next closing  
curly brace.

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Re: "Erreur" messages when trying to compile

[Mark Hansen]

On 2/18/2013 6:42 AM, Jack wrote:
> On 2013.02.18 09:26, jere95 wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am new to programming and I downloaded cygwin, because I heard it  
>> was a
>> good gcc compiler. At the moment I am reading this O'reilly book on  
>> C, and I
>> tried compiling the folowing exemple programme out of the book :
>> 
>> When I try to compile, this c file, typing : /gcc cards.c -o cards/ ,  
>> the
>> cygwin terminal answers :
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What is the problem?
> For some reason, your examples are not coming through to the mailing  
> list.
> 
> However, it looks like the messages are very clear.  You seem to be  
> using "(" (left parenthesis) instead of "{" (left curly brace) on many  
> lines.  gcc is expecting a closing parenthesis before the next  
> semicolon, and it is expecting a semicolon  before the next closing  
> curly brace.

Yes, here is his example program:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
	char card_name[ 3];
	puts("Enter the card_name: ");
	scanf("%2s", card_name);
	int val = 0;
	if (card_name[0] == 'K') (
		val = 10;
	} else if (card_name[0] == 'Q') (
		val = 10;
	} else if (card_name[0] == 'J') (
		val = 10;
	}else if (card_name[0] == 'A') (
		val = 11;
	}else (
		val = atoi(card_name);
	}
	printf("The card value is: %i\n", val);
	return 0;
	}

Look at this line, for example:

	if (card_name[0] == 'K') (

My guess is that you typed this in by hand, and didn't see clearly
that the last character should have been an open brace '{' rather
than an open parentheses '('. It looks like you've made the same
error in several other places.


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Re: "Erreur" messages when trying to compile

[jere95]

Thanks a lot I was able to solve the problem!


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 De : Mark Hansen-4 [via Cygwin] <ml-node+s1069669n96269h13@n5.nabble.com>
À : jere95 <jeremy120895@yahoo.fr> 
Envoyé le : Lundi 18 février 2013 16h19
Objet : Re: "Erreur" messages when trying to compile
 

On 2/18/2013 6:42 AM, Jack wrote: 

> On 2013.02.18 09:26, jere95 wrote: 
>> Hi, 
>> I am new to programming and I downloaded cygwin, because I heard it   
>> was a 
>> good gcc compiler. At the moment I am reading this O'reilly book on   
>> C, and I 
>> tried compiling the folowing exemple programme out of the book : 
>> 
>> When I try to compile, this c file, typing : /gcc cards.c -o cards/ ,   
>> the 
>> cygwin terminal answers : 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What is the problem? 
> For some reason, your examples are not coming through to the mailing   
> list. 
> 
> However, it looks like the messages are very clear.  You seem to be   
> using "(" (left parenthesis) instead of "{" (left curly brace) on many   
> lines.  gcc is expecting a closing parenthesis before the next   
> semicolon, and it is expecting a semicolon  before the next closing   
> curly brace. 
Yes, here is his example program: 

#include<stdio.h> 
#include<stdlib.h> 
int main() 
{ 
        char card_name[ 3]; 
        puts("Enter the card_name: "); 
        scanf("%2s", card_name); 
        int val = 0; 
        if (card_name[0] == 'K') ( 
                val = 10; 
        } else if (card_name[0] == 'Q') ( 
                val = 10; 
        } else if (card_name[0] == 'J') ( 
                val = 10; 
        }else if (card_name[0] == 'A') ( 
                val = 11; 
        }else ( 
                val = atoi(card_name); 
        } 
        printf("The card value is: %i\n", val); 
        return 0; 
        } 

Look at this line, for example: 

        if (card_name[0] == 'K') ( 

My guess is that you typed this in by hand, and didn't see clearly 
that the last character should have been an open brace '{' rather 
than an open parentheses '('. It looks like you've made the same 
error in several other places. 


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Re: "Erreur" messages when trying to compile

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 07:37:22AM -0800, jere95 wrote:
>
>
>Thanks a lot I was able to solve the problem!

For the record:

1) This is a simple C programming problem which should not be sent to
a mailing list.  You should fix these types of problems yourself.

2) If that wasn't enough to make this off-topic, you are sending this
to the "cygwin-xfree" mailing list.  C compilation problems have nothing
to do with this mailing list.

cgf

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