Marcel <kak343@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've been using a particular set of C-code for years > on several systems (mostly linux on PC, or Unix on > some Sun) and could always get it to work when I moved > to a new machine. > > Now, I'm trying to get it to work on a PC with cygwin. > > cygcheck claims I have gcc version 3.3.3-3 OK. > > I am NOT an experienced C or cygwin user, but the > problems I keep running into, appear to me that gcc > with cygwin behaves very differently from whatever I > had on the previous systems. > > gcc -g -Wall -c flm.c > flm.c:37: error: initializer element is not constant > make: *** [flm.o] Error 1 > > The offending line.37 was: > FILE *ch_par=stdout,*ch_verify=NULL; > > In my ignorance, I have to assume that gcc/cygwin is > not compatible with other cc implementations. Can that > be? Or could I have a botched installation of > cygwin+gcc? This is not a gcc question, so this is not the right mailing list. You are trying to initialize ch_par to stdout. You didn't say, but I would guess that ch_par is a global variable. In C, you can only initialize a global variable to a constant. The C standard does not require stdout to be a constant, though on some systems it is. Presumably on cygwin stdout is not a constant. Ian
