Re: Making CVS 1.11.6 on Windows/C++.NET produces linker-error"unresolved external _locate_rcs"

[Derek Robert Price]

Tobias Wirnsberger wrote:

> Hi.
> I am new to cvs and right now in charge of setting up a cvs environment
> in my company, where we will be using a cvs server on SUN and Windows
> clients.
> I downloaded the latest stable release 1.11.6 and tried to build the
> Windows-client using nmake /f cvsnt.mak  I have Visual Studio.NET 2003
> installed on  Windows 2000. Compilation went all right, but the linker
> failed on an unresolved external  "_locate_rcs". After looking around
> for a while, I pasted the two functions locate_file_in_dir and
> locate_rcs from the file .../src/filesubr.c to
> .../windows-NT/filesubr.c. After this, the nmake ran without problems.
> Also the cvs-client seems to be ok, although I havn't been able to test
> it very thoroughly. If  this bugfix is correct, please include it in
> your next release. Otherwise please let me know.
> Thanks
> Tobias
>  

Your fix is not the final one I settled on, but it should work without 
problems.  What I did instead was move the locate_rcs & 
locate_file_in_dir to src/rcs.c & src/subr.c where they would be shared 
with the Windows client, in the interests of easing maintenance.

Anyhow, this fix is already on the 1.11.x & 1.12.x branches.

Thanks for the report!

Derek

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