Hi Przemek, Many thanks - that fixed it, I am getting somewhere now! I have used -n in the past but never realized the effect on code outside the first function. I have never used STATICS myself - I always used PUBLICS and straight structured functional coding! That, I can understand. I do have the original Nantucket Clipper 5.00 Manual, so I will keep reading. Thanks again, Cheers, Barry
Przemyslaw Czerpak-2 wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Barry Jackson wrote: > > Hi Barry, > >> More problems. >> There is a "THREAD STATIC s_aPorts" declaration before the main >> procedure >> in telepathy.prg and no matter how I build this it always crashes with: >> Error BASE/1003 Variable does not exist: S_APORTS. Even if I put altd() >> before any other functions in main() it crashes first. >> I have tried changing it to a PUBLIC inside main(). I have tried it >> without >> the 'THREAD', I have compiled it with -mt but all produce the same >> result. I >> cannot find any documentation on Harbour variable declarations and >> scoping >> anywhere. Even a small test program with a STATIC declared before the >> main() >> procedure cannot see the static variable within the program. As I >> understand >> it a STATIC declared outside the main procedure should have application >> wide >> scope - is this correct? > > The variable scope is exactly the same as in Clipper and I think also > in xbase++ if it's Clipper compatible. See what -n harbour and Clipper > compiler switch does in Clipper documentation and use it to compiler > your code. All Clipper switches are supported. -n means that compiler > will not generate automatically procedure with the same name as compiled > file which will contain code between start of file and first explicitly > defined user function/procedure. > When it's used then before 1-st function/procedure you can only use > declarations like MEMVAR, FIELD, [THREAD] STATIC and they have file > wide scope. > > best regards, > Przemek > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-building-telepathy-test-program-tp20707046p20745967.html Sent from the Harbour - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
