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Re: Problem with sunrpc


>On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 05:07 +0530, Zahir Koradia wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This message might be specifically for Sam Robb but am sending to the
>> whole list as others may be able to help. I installed the binaries and
>> downloaded the source of sunrpc while installing cygwin. I intended to
>> use the function clnttcp_create present in clnt.h header. The anamoly
>> I see is that in the header file the signature has no parameters and
>> in the source code the function definition has parameters.

>This should be OK, believe it or not - the sunrpc headers use older
>(K&R) style function prototypes.  Some information if you're interested:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_language#K.26R_C


>> and the source code (clnt_tcp.c) definition had the line
><snip>
>> This code does not compile.

>It shouldn't.  This is part of the sunrpc library - you shouldn't have
>to rebuild it.

>Instead, you should be able to use the clnttcp_create() function from
>the library by including <rpc/rpc.h> in your source file, and linking to
>the rpc libraries by using -lrpc.  For example:

>/*
>  Compile: gcc -o rpc-example.exe rpc-example.c -lrpc
>*/

>#include <rpc/rpc.h>

>int main(int argc, char** argv) {
>    clnttcp_create(NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0, 0);
>    return 0;
>}

>Note that the above doesn't actually do anything useful - it just shows
>you how to include the rpc headers, and compile and link to the rpc
>libraries.

>-Samrobb

Hi,
This test is ok but when I tried with g++ compilator it's OK (undefined reference ...).
Could you tell if it's possible to use this library with g++?
Regards,
jean-Hervà QuÃau

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