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From: olm@Eng.Sun.COM (Ole Lehrmann Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: Constants in Beta
Date: 21 Apr 1995 07:21:29 GMT
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Baiss E. Magnusson <BMagnusson@PrecisionImages.com> writes:


>>However, it fails to build successfully ( as shown by the error at the
>>bottom), and in fact the same thing happens when I try to build
>><aeregistry.bet>!

>The situation works, and I assume the following:
>It works because you don't compile library modules, instead they are
>compiled when you compile the main program and Beta compiles any
><INCLUDE> files into an object file, if an object file does not exist for
>the library.

You are almost right:

You can compile library modules. The error you got is not a real compiler
error, but due to the fact that the compiler calls the linker and attempts
to link a program. It is however not possible to link library module
since no main program is present.

As far as I know the next release of the compiler will not call
the linker for a libraray module. However, the error message can just
be ignored.

I.e. you library module compiles,a dn as you haev experienced, it works
fine when included in a main program.

---olm