hi everybody,

i've been building on MUDs for a while, but i am completely clueless when it comes to compiling and such, as this is the first time i've ever tried to start a MUD of my own. the whole compiling thing makes sense for the most part, but the errors are a completely foreign language to me. i tried extensively to find information in google about these errors but had zero luck. any help is greatly appreciated. :)

this is what i get when i run the make command:

> make
make -s smaug
  Compiling o/imc.o….
imc.c: In function 'const char* imc_find_social(CHAR_DATA*, const char*, const char*, const char*, int)':
imc.c:7496: error: redeclaration of 'char lcSocName [4096]'
imc.c:7491: error: 'char lcSocName [4096]' previously declared here
make[1]: *** [o/imc.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Could you show the lines of code please? Perhaps all of imc_find_social, if it's not too big.

Chances are that you'll just have to remove the second declaration; it's a little strange that there are two in the first place.

This would be better reported on SmaugMuds where SmaugFUSS is maintained.

But you can disable IMC by making a change to the Makefile if you wish, should fix the error.

disabling IMC did the trick. thanks again. :)

Odd. I just pulled the copy off the SmaugMuds site and didn't get that..

You may not be set to warn/error on shadowed variables. Removing the dec on line 7496 would do the trick if you wish to keep IMC.

If it trips on the downloaded copy it trips on mine. :P It's the same makefile.

that did do the trick–cheers. :)

Can you post that whole section for me? I'd like to try and figure out how exactly you ended up with a shadowed declaration when the copy in the repository at SmaugMuds.org has this issue.

Which also reminds me, I need to update the copies in MudBytes' Repository..