I portedd some code I had written in FreeBSD unix over to
a new ubuntu-server system only to discover that none of the
time and date functions compile in Linux but do so under
FreeBSD. When referencing members of the structure timeptr such as

(timeptr->tm_year - 100), (timeptr->tm_mon) + 1, timeptr->tm_mday);

compilation finds an error every time. The following
fragment will produce the error:

struct tm *timeptr;
time_t elapsed_seconds; /*since midnight 1/1/70*/
time(&elapsed_seconds);
timeptr = localtime(&elapsed_seconds); /*fill structure*/
sprintf(newalarm,"alarms%02d%02d%02d", (timeptr->tm_year - 100), (timeptr->tm_mon) + 1, timeptr->tm_mday);

I actually ported over 8 small applications and all use
time and date and all fail to compile.

The error is:

"dereferencing pointer to incomplete type"

The headers I include are:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <libgen.h>

Any ideas on the easiest way to satisfy gcc?

Thank you.

Martin McCormick

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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Martin McCormick
<martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> I portedd some code I had written in FreeBSD unix over to
> a new ubuntu-server system only to discover that none of the
> time and date functions compile in Linux but do so under
> FreeBSD. When referencing members of the structure timeptr such as
>
> (timeptr->tm_year - 100), (timeptr->tm_mon) + 1, timeptr->tm_mday);
>
> compilation finds an error every time. The following
> fragment will produce the error:
>
> "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type"
>

Without looking at your specifc issue (as you don't include the full
error messages and output), have you installed the 'build-essential'
package?

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I portedd some code I had written in FreeBSD unix over to
> a new ubuntu-server system only to discover that none of the
> time and date functions compile in Linux but do so under
> FreeBSD. When referencing members of the structure timeptr such as
>
> (timeptr->tm_year - 100), (timeptr->tm_mon) + 1, timeptr->tm_mday);
>
> compilation finds an error every time. The following
> fragment will produce the error:
>
> struct tm *timeptr;
> time_t elapsed_seconds; /*since midnight 1/1/70*/
> time(&elapsed_seconds);
> timeptr = localtime(&elapsed_seconds); /*fill structure*/
> sprintf(newalarm,"alarms%02d%02d%02d", (timeptr->tm_year - 100), (timeptr->tm_mon) + 1, timeptr->tm_mday);

*snip*

> #include <sys/time.h>

Your problem seems to be here. On my machine at lease, time.h is not
in /usr/include/sys. It's in /usr/include. The struct you are making a
pointer to above is not defined in sys/time.h. You need:

#include <time.h>

I do see the struct defined there. It is a part of libc6-dev.

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