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VC6: Error c2065 on compile

by Fenrir Wolf · in Torque Game Engine · 08/26/2003 (2:46 pm) · 6 replies

Well, I followed the instructions for downloading the Torque engine and configuring VC6 for it. I installed SP5, and the DX9 SDK, plus the OpenAL SDK.

Everything compiles fine, except that I get one error each per four files. Here's what I get:

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Compiling...
winConsole.cc
c:\torque\engine\platformwin32\winconsole.cc(270) : error C2065: 'strcpy' : undeclared identifier
winGL.cc
c:\torque\engine\platformwin32\wingl.cc(1325) : error C2065: 'strcpy' : undeclared identifier
winInput.cc
c:\torque\engine\platformwin32\wininput.cc(772) : error C2065: 'strcpy' : undeclared identifier
winStrings.cc
c:\torque\engine\platformwin32\winstrings.cc(131) : error C2065: 'strcpy' : undeclared identifier
Error executing cl.exe.

torqueDemo_DEBUG.exe - 4 error(s), 0 warning(s)
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I've seen these kinds of errors before, but for the life of me I cannot remember how to resolve them. Can anyone help me?
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Torque Owner Badguy
#1
08/26/2003 (3:18 pm)
David ..
im curious why this code is not using the platform safe dStrcpy method.

the engine base has wrapped or re-written most of the required c standard library functions.
and those are to be used in the engine in place of directly calling the library function..
these functions are prefixed with a lowercase 'd'

the soluction here is to replace strcpy with dStrcpy.

a real Hack would be to simply include string.h
but dont do that.

Edit:
C2065 :
'identifier' : undeclared identifier

The specified identifier was not declared.

Technical Reference:
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/c2065.as...

A good tip here.
is when you have an error you dont understand simply select it in the output window in your visual studio and press F1
if you dont have a decent copy of msdn (read : dated)
simply paste the error into the online msdn search.

Torque Owner Fenrir Wolf
#2
08/26/2003 (11:32 pm)
Hmm, that's odd. I used CVS to grab the Release_1_1_2 version -- that is the latest one, right?

I'll go back later and change the strcpy's to dStrcpy's, but for now I got it to work by adding this before each file that complained:

extern "C" {
  char * strcpy(char *, const char *);
}

It has something to do with the default VC++ name space. I'm new to C++, so I'm not sure why this is giving me (and just me) problems.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Torque Owner Badguy
#3
08/27/2003 (9:37 am)
You should be using the head release.
that version is dated.

remove any "tags" before you get a checkout it will default to head release.

it actually prolly has more to do with string.h not being included at this level.

so instead of that you could have just:
#include

but yea just get the head release.

Torque Owner Fenrir Wolf
#4
08/27/2003 (10:37 am)
I used WinCVS to grab the "HEAD" version (that's the tag I used), but I am still getting errors.

Erf, am I doing something wrong?

Torque Owner Badguy
#5
08/27/2003 (12:03 pm)
Hmmm..
well when I get the head, I just leave it empty.
which allows it to default to the head release.

I would assume HEAD tag would do the same...

try without Any tag and see.
I'm at work now so there is not much more I can do.

Torque Owner Jon Uhal
#6
09/04/2003 (12:28 pm)
I had problems with similar errors for another project that I was working on. I had to reinstall VC6 to get it to work properly. This may or may not work for you though...