"No known conversion" compiler error with identical arguments

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Kessler
I am converting a computer game project from Microsoft Visual Studio to GCC and get the following compiler error: ../../Human/Human.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void CHuman::TakeAction(CTerrainView**, PUniverse, WORD)’: ../../Human/Human.cpp:1469:71: error: no matching function for call to

Re: Compiling Objective-C Using Cygwin

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Kessler
Thanks! That did it. I found the package under the category Devel. There are so many packages and categories, I didn't know which ones to include and where to look for them. The installer does have a dependency checker, but it doesn't seem to catch all the dependencies. -- Problem reports:

Re: Compiling Objective-C Using Cygwin

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Kessler
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: > > You can't do this. Cygwin != Linux! > Of course! I'll delete those files and get the Windows files. > > > > Install gcc4-objc. > Thanks! But that page

Compiling Objective-C Using Cygwin

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Kessler
I am trying to learn Objective-C using Cygwin. First I wrote a hello world program in C and compiled it thus: gcc -o inventry inventry.c and it worked perfectly. Then I renamed the source file inventory.m, and since every C program should be a valid Objective-C program, compiled it thus: gcc