Which library defines these symbols: nmgetch kbd_again initkbd resetkbd - linker

I'm trying to compile version 7.16 of sc, the ncurses spreadsheet calculator, for cygwin. Compilation fails due to undefined references: nmgetch, kbd_again, initkbd, and resetkbd. Google search, and grepping a Ubuntu machine with apt-get-installed sc, has got me nowhere. Does anyone recognise these names?

in fact I was able to compile and get arrow keys working,
the right CFLASG to put in the Makefile is :
CFLAGS=-DSYSV3 -I/usr/include/ncurses/
You don't need to change the SIMPLE= variable (you can leave it as it is in Makefile)
If you leave the -O2 and -pipe flags your SC won't be working properly (it won't process editing options - syntax error)

These functions are defined within sc. They are required to build sc, but undefined by default. If the C preprocessor macro, SIMPLE, is defined, a "simple" implementation of these functions is enabled. So call make as follows, to allow it to find cygwin's curses.h:
make CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncurses SIMPLE=-DSIMPLE
But now the arrow keys don't move the cursor.

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Linking shared libraries with gcc on Linux

I need to compile and, most importantly, link a C program that uses a proprietary function present in a shared library file. Because of lack of communication with the previous development team, there is no proper documentation. I declared a function prototype (because I know the number and type of arguments):
int CustomFunction(unsigned char *in, int size);
Since that function name can be grepped from /customlibs/libcustom.so, I tried to compile the code and link it like this:
gcc -L/customlibs testing.c -o testing -lcustom
Which throws a few error messages looking like this:
/customlibs/libcustom.so: undefined reference to `AnotherCustomFunction'
Obviously, I need to tell linker to include other libraries as well, and, to make things worse, they need to be in certain order. I tried exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, using -Wl,-rpath=, -Wl,--no-undefined and -Wl,--start-group. Is there an easy way to give the linker all the .so files without the proper order?
I found the solution (or a workaround) to my problem: adding -Wl,--warn-unresolved-symbols, which turns errors to warnings. Note that this works only if you are ABSOLUTELY certain your function does not depend on the symbols mentioned in undefined refernce to: messages.
Add them on the command line is a way to do it. Something like this below. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH tells gcc where to look for libraries, but you still need to say what libraries to include.
gcc -L/customlibs testing.c -o testing -lcustom -lmylib1 -lmylib2 -lmylib3
You should also include all the header files of your shared library by adding the -I option of gcc, for example : gcc [...] -I/path/to/your/lib/header/files [...]

gdb get preprocessor macro info from file in different directory

I'm trying to debug some additions I made to a fairly large c program using gdb. The program I'm trying to debug makes extensive use of #define statements to set different values that are used throughout the code. I need to be able to see what these values are in order to help my debugging (as they include some very important information.
After some digging around I found that the info macro FOO and macro expand FOO commands should be able to print these values if the -g3 option (also tried the -gdwarf-2 and -ggdb3 flags as well) is passed to the compiler (as discussed here). However, whenever I try using this I get
The symbol `FOO' has no definition as a C/C++ preprocessor macro
at <user-defined>:-1
Now, I'm sure that the macro is defined otherwise the previous line of code would not have been able to run. In addition, I'm certain that I have passed the -g3 flag to the compiler. I have one idea as to where the issue might be and that is the location that the macro is defined at. Currently the macro is defined in a header file that is not in the same directory as the rest of the files (i.e. if the source files are in /foo/bar/blam/.. then the macro is defined in /def/mac/here/. Given this I thought maybe the problem was that gdb didn't know to look in this directory so I tried issuing the directory command in gdb and gave it the path to the directory containing the header file (base on this). This still did not solve the problem.
Does anyone know how I can get the values of these macros? If it is pertinent I'm running gdb version 7.11 and compiling the program using
cc and gcc both with Apple LLVM version 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81). Also, gdb was installed/built using homebrew.

CLion fails to index C preprocessor macros when -std=gnuXX is set (Linux Kernel Headers)

I am trying to write a Linux kernel module with CLion. This is the cmake file:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
project(labs)
set(KERNEL_HEADERS
/home/alex/Developer/linux/include
/home/alex/Developer/linux/arch/x86/include
/home/alex/Developer/linux/arch/x86/include/generated
/home/alex/Developer/linux/include/uapi
/home/alex/Developer/linux/include/generated/uapi
/home/alex/Developer/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi
/home/alex/Developer/linux/arch/x86/include/generated/uapi
)
set(MY_MODULE_SOURCES
chapter_03/lab_01/hello.c
)
add_definitions(-imacros /home/alex/Developer/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h)
add_definitions(-D__KERNEL__)
add_definitions(-DMODULE)
add_definitions(-std=gnu89)
include_directories(${KERNEL_HEADERS})
add_custom_target(labs COMMAND $(MAKE) -C ${labs_SOURCE_DIR}
PWD=${labs_SOURCE_DIR})
add_library(dummylib ${MY_MODULE_SOURCES})
The actual building of the kernel module is done with the externally called makefile using "add_custom_target". The "dummylib" is only there so that CLion actually starts to parse the header files and gives me auto completion. With my supplied definitions it does even compile the "dummylib" successfully (look at the screenshot). It is no kernel module though, but that does not matter ;)
My problem is the error you see in the screenshot. Somehow it says that it can't resolve all the macros defined in the kernel headers. Functions, structs and plain defines ( "MODULE_SIG_STRING ") do work (as you see). I do not understand why the editor says it cannot resolve the macro but can still build it. What is more strange is that I can even jump to the declaration using STRG+B of the marked macros. Clearly something is going wrong. The macros are really defined within linux/module.h.
Update
When I set -std=c89 instead of -std=gnu89 the editor recognizes the macros but the "dummylib" of course fails to build since the kernel needs the gnu extensions. I guess this is a bug in CLion. I posted it at the Jetbrains Bugtracker: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-6875

Fortran g77 compiler can't recognize o.f or comment "c"

I was using Fortran g77 and experienced this problem:
c this program calculates runoff and sediment
1 2
Unrecognized statement name at (1) and invalid form for assignment or statement-function definition at (2)
Also, the compiler can recognized only .for file extension, not .f.
Does anyone know, where is the problem? I downloaded it from http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani/fortran/ftn.htm.
The compiler is not recognizing that statement as a comment. As a comment it should ignore the line but it is trying parse it. Are you sure that the "C" is in the first column?
Why are you using g77? It hasn't been supported for years. gfortran is the current GNU Fortran compiler. It can compile FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90, 95 and portions of 2003 and 2008.
EDIT: Perhaps its wants an upper-case "C".
The page you have linked to states that the f2exe wrapper passes -ffree-form to the compiler:
Compilation Command
The above f2exe command is just a batch file that invokes g77, the "real" compilation command. The command:
g77 -ffree-form prog.for -oprog.exe
directs the compiler to compile the file prog.for and stores the output in the file prog.exe. The -ffree-form switch indicates free-form style (remove it if you are using the old style).
In free-form Fortran the only allowed comment format is that of a line starting with !. As a matter of fact, this is also written on the same page directly under the above text:
Comments
In free-form style, use ! for both full-line and in-line comments. In the old style, use a "C" in column-1.
If you are not using the provided f2exe wrapper, don't pass -ffree-form option when compiling fixed-form FORTRAN 77 code.
I'll assume you want to stick with this compiler.
As noted above, the problems you have come from using the F2EXE batch file, which is not very useful: first it automatically adds ".for" to the file name, so you can't compile ".f" files, and it assumes free-form syntax, which is unusual when programming in Fortran 77 (and if you want Fortran 90, find another compiler, other answers give you links).
Now, suppose you have written a program myprogram.f, and you are in a Windows command line, in the same directory where the program resides (use "cd C:\mydirectory" for example, to change)
You will compile with
g77 myprogram.f
If you use SLATEC, you use
g77 myprogram.f -lslatec
If you want to specify a name for your .exe file (default is a.exe), you write
g77 myprogram.f -o myprogram.exe
There are other useful options
g77 -O2 myprogram.f to optimize (within g77 2.95 limitations)
g77 -Wall myprogram.f to enable all compiler warnings, very useful
to find errors in your code
g77 -c myprogram.f to only compile (you get a .o file), this is
useful to compile functions and subroutines, to
later build a static library (.a file), like
libslatec.a which is given with the compiler
And to build a library, using ar.exe:
ar cru mylib.a myfunc1.o myfnuc2.o ...
Then you can use is with
g77 myprogram.f mylib.a
G77 runs in command line under Windows. You write programs in a text editor.
Notepad++ is fairly good and its free. See http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
If you have problems with compilation, maybe it comes from environment variables, so here are some precisions. You have to tell Windows where to find the G77 compiler (g77.exe).
You can follow instructions on the site where you downloaded it to change Windows' environment variables PATH and LIBRARY_PATH. It needs you install the compiler in the C:\F directory : that is, you will have C:\F\G77\bin, etc.
Slight modification to the instructions on that page :
You should set PATH to C:\F\G77\bin
And LIBRARY_PATH to C:\F\G77\lib;C:\F\SLATEC\lib
This modification to LIBRARY_PATH allows you to compile with SLATEC simply with "-lslatec" as above.
A note about the compiler. It's G77, also know as GNU Fortran 77. An old compiler, integrated with the well known GCC suite until GCC 3.4.6 (we are at GCC 4.7.2 now). And the compiler you downloaded is for version GCC 2.95.
It's a good Fortran 77 compiler, but it's not very well optimized, and of course, you don't get any support for new processor features such as Intel SSE.
Modern Fortran compilers can still understand most if not all of Fortran 77, plus all the newer features of Fortran 90 and newer standards, which are extremely useful.
It may also be interesting to know there is another place to download the same compiler (eccept there is no SLATEC), just in case the page gets destroyed :
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/software/g77.html

expect - c program

I am trying to compile a program written in c using the expect.h header. I am trying this:
cc -I/usr/include main.c -lexpect -ltcl
cc -I/usr/include main.c
I tried the same with gcc, but to no avail.
I get this:
undefined reference to `exp_spawnl'
undefined reference to `exp_expectl'
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Walter
It means that regardless of what you thought was being used, the expect library being used does not contain those two functions. So, you need to track down which expect library is actually loaded, and then check whether the functions are in it (they aren't, but you should check to see what is defined).
Once you've found your library, you can use nm -g libexpect.so to see the symbols defined. I would expect that you will not see exp_spawnl or exp_expectl in the list of defined symbols.
Then you need to find out which version of the library you do have, and decide whether to upgrade, etc.
I am assuming that the names you quote are indeed spelled correctly.
Is the expect header file installed in /usr/include?
I think the undefined reference error comes from the linker and not the compiler. What directory is the library installed to? Try to link against it using the
-L/path/to/lib -lexpect
option

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