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Re: "Erreur" messages when trying to compile


On 2013.02.18 09:26, jere95 wrote:
Hi,
I am new to programming and I downloaded cygwin, because I heard it was a
good gcc compiler. At the moment I am reading this O'reilly book on C, and I
tried compiling the folowing exemple programme out of the book :


When I try to compile, this c file, typing : /gcc cards.c -o cards/ , the
cygwin terminal answers :




What is the problem?
For some reason, your examples are not coming through to the mailing list.

However, it looks like the messages are very clear. You seem to be using "(" (left parenthesis) instead of "{" (left curly brace) on many lines. gcc is expecting a closing parenthesis before the next semicolon, and it is expecting a semicolon before the next closing curly brace.

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