Thread: Linking Errors

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    Linking Errors

    im getting better at all this stuff. i can fix most of my errors on my own. but im getting linking errors now and i have no clue how to fix them. anybody know whats wrong with this?


    heres my errors im getting:

    Ch09Ex02.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall NonFiction::showNonFiction(void)" (?showNonFiction@NonFiction@@QAEXXZ)
    Ch09Ex02.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall Fiction::showFiction(void)" (?showFiction@Fiction@@QAEXXZ)
    Debug/Ch09Ex02.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals



    Code:
    #include<iostream.h>
    #include<string.h>
    
    class Book
    {
    	protected:
    		char Title[20];
    		char Author[20];
    	public:
    		void getData(const char title[20], const char author[20]);
    		void showData();
    };
    
    class Fiction:public Book
    {
    	private:
    		int readingLevel;
    	public:
    		void getData(const char title[], const char author[], const int level);
    		void showFiction(void);
    };
    
    class NonFiction:public Book
    {
    	private:
    		int numPages;
    	public:
    		void getData(const char title[], const char author[], const int pages);
    		void showNonFiction(void);
    };
    void Fiction::getData(const char title[], const char author[], const int level)
    {
    	strcpy(Title,title);
    	strcpy(Author, author);
    	readingLevel=level;
    }
    void NonFiction::getData(const char title[], const char author[], const int pages)
    {
    	strcpy(Title, title);
    	strcpy(Author, author);
    	numPages=pages;
    }
    
    void main()
    
    {
    
      Fiction novel;
    
      NonFiction manual;
    
      novel.getData("Scarlet Letter","Hawthorne",10);
    
      manual.getData("Log Cabin Building","Landers",328);
    
      novel.showFiction();
    
      manual.showNonFiction();
    
    
     }

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    looks to me like you have forgotten to write 2 functions...

    NonFiction::showNonFiction()
    and
    Fiction::showFiction()

    The compiler can see the decs but not the defs. Not a problem to a compiler but it is to a linker as the linker is trying to find the code for the function calls above and it cant so it chokes.
    Free the weed!! Class B to class C is not good enough!!
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