Re: why is include not working? - beginner question
On Oct 17, 5:09 am, Jason <jason.lillywh...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 16, 8:01 pm, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
What beginner's book are you reading that doesn't explain
such simple concepts?
Thank you. I know this seems just too simple. Problem is, I've
been searching for some time and still have not found
documentation on doing something like
-I${environment_variable}/include in the command line.
Have you read the documentation of your compiler? How to invoke
the compiler depends on the implemenation: using -I or /I seems
to be an almost universal choice for specifying include paths
(i.e. telling the compiler where to look for included files).
Some compilers allow the option and the path to be separated by
a space, others not. (In practice, almost all of the compilers
which use /I also understand -I, and all those which allow the
space accept the option without it, so it's common here to
simply say -Ipath, which works with pretty much all compilers,
even if it isn't the "preferred" form for some.)
I will warn you, however, that most compiler documentation isn't
for beginners. And that it's a point that most beginners' books
do seem to ignore. (On the other hand, what beginners' book
could have given you the idea that -Iwhatever was legal in the
source code?)
Would you mind pointing me to this documentation? And how does
this statement fit? I tried putting the #include statement in
the source file like you said (#include "SQLAPI.h" ) and using
the -I option in the command line:
jrl:~$ g++ my_source_file.cpp -I${SQLAPI}/include
also tried:
jrl:~$ g++ -I${SQLAPI}/include my_source_file.cpp
Still, I get:
my_source_file.cpp:2:44: error: SQLAPI.h: No such file or directory
How is $SQLAPI defined in your shell?
For starters, what you have to do (with g++, but this also works
with most other compilers) is -Ipath, where path is the
specification of where the compiler should look for the files,
in this case, the path where your SQLAPI product installed the
header files. (Probably something like /opt/SQL/include or
/usr/local/include, depending on the system.) But it's a pain
to have to type this in every time, and to keep in mind where
all of the different products are installed on different
systems, so it's usual to set up an environment variable for
each product in your login file, pointing to its root, and use
this. Read the documentation of your shell for this.
I wish this did not seem like such a lame question, but I just
can't find the answer - not sure where to look in beginner
books online.
The problem is that you're dealing with several different
layers: the shell which interprets your command line, your
compiler, and the language. You need to know all three.
--
James Kanze