Unable to compile the IXchariot API

[ebelisha@Airspan.com]

Hi,

I am using Ixia Chariot ver 6.00

The API that I'm using does not seem to compile under CVI ver 6.00.

It keeps showing me the following error message:

"Invalid use of 'long'"

when trying to compile the line:

#define long long CHR_WLONG;

Has anyone encountered this problem before, or managed to work with the IXIA Chariot API?

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks

[Wendy L]

Hello,

So the line #define long long CHR_WLONG; doesn't seem to be correct because first, you have a double data type declaration (long long), and you are trying to redefine the datatype long to a constant CHR_WLONG. 

Instead, you might mean to define CHR_WLONG as a long:
const long CHR_WLONG;
-or-
#define CHR_WLONG long;

Both of the declarations above will compile without error.  Hope that helps.

[ebelisha@Airspan.com]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is there any way of using a "long long" type?

Your previous suggestion invovles using a long instead of the double long found in the Chariot API header.

I doubt it the functions will function properly with long type.

[DaveC]

Hi ebelisha,

When you declare a "long long" datatype what are you looking to get? 

If you want to get a 64 bit integer (I'm assuming this because long is 32 bit integer and you wanted double long), there is a way to declare this.  You can use the __int64 declaration to get a 64 bit integer.  The following link from MSDN describes the datatype.  Note that __int64 is not an ANSI C data type, it's MS specific, so you will have problems trying to compile the code on a UNIX based system.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccelng/htm/basic_45.asp

[LuisG]

The __int64 notation is supported in CVI to denote a 64-bit integer, but only from version 7.0 onwards. The CVI 6.0 compiler did not support 64-bit integers.

Luis
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