Cygwin Help

Hello, i am new to programming.
I know a little bit of C and am trying to learn pascal.
I have Cygwin On my computer, and i used to use it to program for psp.
The Cygwin Dash Barely notices any code, it notices some C and zer Pascal.
For Example:

Code:

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Craig@computer ~
$ #include <stdio.h>

Craig@computer ~
$

Craig@computer ~
$ main(){
> POINT pt;
> getcursorpos(&pt);
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'

Craig@computer ~
$ }

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Also, it doesnt recognize variables like 'int' type as it reads:
"bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'int'"

I think What I need is some libraries, so if somebody could point me to some libraries for both C and Pascal, and tell me where to save them under cygwin, i would be very appreciative. Thank You.

Oh, and By the way, i am on Windows XP professional if that matters.

Presumably you're using bash, which speaks bash not C.

> I think What I need is some libraries
Or a text editor and a C compiler... :)

I used to use cygwin to compile PSP programs that i wrote in C.
That was using psptoolchain. So ur saying i should get a comiler and text editor?
Ive thought of taht before, but ive used cygwin to compile before, so i thought id use that. I have to try and find out the administration password, cause there is always sumthing going wrong when i try to download on this user. Ive actually tried to get crimson editor, which is what i used when i was doing psp. Thanks for the help, ima go mess around with it for a bit
=p


EDIT:
Ok, i got a compiler(Bloodshed Dev-C++), it seems that my simple program wont show me the cordonites of the screen, it looks like a window pops up, but it shutsdown rightaway.

Code:

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#include <windows.h>

main(){
      POINT pt;
      GetCursorPos(&pt);
      }

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it comiled with no errors, but could somebody help me. The program is just to find the coordinates of the cursor on screen. Thank you.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by wannabe723

Ok, i got a compiler(Bloodshed Dev-C++), it seems that my simple program wont show me the cordonites of the screen, it looks like a window pops up, but it shutsdown rightaway.

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Read the FAQ concerning How do I Stop my Windows Console from disappearing everytime I run my program?

Actually, in view that maintenance on Dev-C++ has stopped yet the program still has a number of bugs, it would be better to use Code::Blocks or Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express.

Thank you guys a bunch, i finally got this working, i had to use cygwin to run the compiled code, and here it is:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

main(){
      POINT pt;
      GetCursorPos(&pt);
  printf("%pt"); //Added this cause the program had no output =P
      }

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And when i ran the program on cygwin:

Code:

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Craig@computer ~
$ ls
 getcursorpos  helloworld
   
Craig@computer ~
$ cd getcursorpos

Craig@computer ~/getcursorpos
$ ls
getcursorpos.exe

Craig@computer ~/getcursorpos
$ ./getcursorpos.exe
003E2478t
Craig@computer ~/getcursorpos
$

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so the output is "003E2478t". How do i get this into x,y coordinates?

You are using printf() totally wrong. Check out these links.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...io/printf.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...19(VS.85).aspx

Lolz, yeah, i shoulda checked it up, all i remembered from psp programming was that there was a % in it. Isnt it wierd that it still comiled with no errors?

I redid my code to this:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

main(){
      POINT pt;
      GetCursorPos(&pt);
      printf("%p",pt);
      }

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And cygwin outputed this:
000000C5

What does this mean!!?? is it like the address of that pixel? How do i get it into x,y format(i need x,y for pascal!);

The Windows POINT is a structure that contains two members, x and y, which means you're going to have to print them out yourself.

Code:

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printf("(%ld, %ld)\n", pt.x, pt.y);

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As for the other, gcc will tell you

Code:

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warning: too few arguments for format

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provided you don't silence the warnings.

Ahhhh... thank you it worked. This little tiny project tells me i have a whole lot to learn =p

Again, %p prints pointers.
You need something like
printf( "%d %d", pt.x, pt.y );

But you need to research the names and types of the struct members, and the associated printf format strings.

wannabe723,
Take a look here, please:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/74079-c-book-recommendations.html

A good book on C programming is your better choice!!!

Kind regards!