GCC Error but VS no error

Question

When I compile the below program it is giving me this error.

/tmp/ccwr6gsJ.o: In function 'main':
main.cL(.text+0xa): undefined reference to 'example'
collect2: error: Id returned 1 exit status

Main.c:

#include <stdio.h>

#include "includes.h"

int main()
{
    int exampleInt = example();

    return 0;
}

includes.h:

int example();

includes.c:

#include "includes.h"

int example()
{
    int i = 3;

    return i;
}

It seems to work in Visual Studio but not on GCC on Linux

unwind · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-25 14:15:02Z

6

This is very likely a build error, i.e. you're calling the compiler on the wrong set(s) of files, and/or not doing a linking step.

Try:

$ gcc -o myprog main.c example.c

Note that a mere #include in a C file does not in any way tell the compiler to compile more C files.

answered Sep 25, 2015 at 14:15

unwind

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