[sylpheed:32622] Re: stray '\' in program

crazycode08 crazycode08 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 23:51:07 JST 2008


I installed mingw+msys+gtk_bundle under windows.

I use tar to extract the archive.

I don't modify any files.

But there still have the same errors.

please help me.




crazycode08 写道:
> I extract the archive with WinRAR.
> I don't have modified the source files.
> 
> 
> 
> Enrico Tröger 写道:
>> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:37:00 +0800, crazycode08 <crazycode08 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,everyone:
>>>
>>>   I try to compile the sylpheed source code under windows with MinGW
>>>
>>> after I use make ,it shows some error:
>>>
>>> account.c: In function `account_find_from_smtp_server':
>>> account.c:117: error: stray '\' in program
>>> [..]
>>> account.c:446: error: stray '\' in program
>>> account.c:446: error: `LibSylph' undeclared (first use in this
>>> function) f:\msys\mingw\bin\make.exe: *** [account.lo] Error 1
>>>
>>> I don't know what's wrong?
>>
>> I'm not completely sure but this error message generally means there
>> are non-Ascii characters in the source file which shouldn't be there.
>> So, since the original source files are fine I guess your files are
>> corrupted in some way, maybe while extracting the archive.
>> Have a look at libsylph/account.c and check around line 117 to see how
>> it looks and/or re-download the sources, extract them (don't use
>> WinZip, it's known to mishandle line break characters sometimes) and
>> try again.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Enrico
>>
> 


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