make check shows error

[jkhillier]

Hi William,

I've created a forked repository. Got both desktop and terminal versions of git working, used the command line to clone SWT to my machine in a sensible directory. Then I ran 'make check' in the SWT directory. This produced the error below. As far as I can tell, this is just cc (not gcc?) compiling the swt.c code. However, since you offered, I'd be grateful for any help.

cc -c src/swt.c -o src/swt.o
src/swt.c:44:1: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
44 | main(int argc, char *argv[])
| ^
| int
1 error generated.
make: *** [src/swt.o] Error 1

Thank you,
John

[wkearn]

Hi John,

Excellent work getting git set up!

I realize that you might not have seen the issue I opened about compiler warnings here: #5, but see there and the accompanying pull request (#4) for more information.

The Makefile compiles with cc rather than gcc for portability reasons: some platforms don't have GCC and GCC implements several extensions to C that we can't depend on. The cc binary on your computer might actually be gcc with some particular combination of flags set to ensure that it is more portable.

[wkearn]

Closed by #8