error: syntax error before '*' token

[Manuel]

I'm trying to compile glut 3.7.6 (dowbloaded from official site)using
devc++.
So I've imported the glut32.dsp into devc++, included manually some
headers, and start to compile.

It return a very strange error. In your experience, where I should
looking to find the real error? Surely the sintax of glut is correct...

gcc.exe -c glut_bitmap.c -o glut_bitmap.o -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include"
-I"../../include" -D__GNUWIN32__ -W -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_WINDOWS -D_MBCS
-D_USRDLL -DGLUT32_EXPORTS -UGLUT_USE_SGI_OPENGL

In file included from glut_bitmap.c:8:
lutint.h:280: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:281: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:282: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:283: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:284: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:285: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:286: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:287: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:288: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:289: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:290: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:291: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:292: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:293: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:294: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:295: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:296: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:297: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:298: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:299: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:300: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:301: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:302: error: syntax error before '*' token
glutint.h:384: error: syntax error before "GLUTdisplayCB"
glutint.h:384: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
glutint.h:385: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
glutint.h:386: error: syntax error before "mouse"
glutint.h:386: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
glutint.h:387: error: syntax error before "motion"

etc etc...

Using google, I've found a similar case, but it's not english and I
don't understand:

http://exp.dk/spm/625931

Help!

 

[mlimber]

I'm trying to compile glut 3.7.6 (dowbloaded from official site)using
devc++.
So I've imported the glut32.dsp into devc++, included manually some
headers, and start to compile.

Try posting to a glut user list or something. They are likely to have
seen this before or at least will be more equipped to figure out the
problem. In any case, without a concrete language question, this post
is off-topic here. See this FAQ:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.9

It return a very strange error. In your experience, where I should
looking to find the real error?

Look in the header files indicated by the error messages. Are all the
types therein defined? If you can't figure it out, try to reduce the
code to a minimal sample that you could post here and that we could try
compile.

Surely the sintax of glut is correct...

[snip]

A gratuitous assumption. There are many compilers and configurations
out there. They have no doubt tested it on many of them, but they
simply can't test all of them.

Cheers! --M

 

[JustBoo]

I'm trying to compile glut 3.7.6 (dowbloaded from official site)using
devc++.
So I've imported the glut32.dsp into devc++, included manually some
headers, and start to compile.
Help!

There are also helpful people in the newsgroups
below that work with glut:

comp.graphics.algorithms
comp.graphics.api.opengl

Good Luck

 

[Ben Pope]

I'm trying to compile glut 3.7.6 (dowbloaded from official site)using
devc++.
So I've imported the glut32.dsp into devc++, included manually some
headers, and start to compile.

It return a very strange error. In your experience, where I should
looking to find the real error? Surely the sintax of glut is correct...

gcc.exe -c glut_bitmap.c -o glut_bitmap.o -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include"
-I"../../include" -D__GNUWIN32__ -W -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_WINDOWS -D_MBCS
-D_USRDLL -DGLUT32_EXPORTS -UGLUT_USE_SGI_OPENGL

In file included from glut_bitmap.c:8:
lutint.h:280: error: syntax error before '*' token

I would look before the '*' in question.

What type is directly before the "*"? Where is that type defined? Is
the file in which the type is defined, included by glut_bitmap.c, before
lutint.h is included?

This is off topic, since you haven't posted the code.

Ben Pope