Loader: Not Found

[Dirk-]

Hi,

I installed v2.2.0b7 over my original ORCA/C 2.1 installation. I know that installation worked last year, I did nothing in between. Now I can't compile the simplest C programs. When I type run test.cc, I get the prompt "Loader: Not Found" repeatedly until I restart.

If I remember correctly, ORCA/C should at least show its version before compiling, like ORCA/Pascal, right?

I used the SHK archive for installation.

Can you help me with that?

Dirk

[sheumann]

The error message indicates that ORCA/Shell got an error ($1101) when it made a call to the System Loader. The run test.cc command would involve loading and running the C compiler, then the linker, then the program that was just compiled. If you did not get any output from ORCA/C, that suggests the error likely relates to loading the compiler.

It could be that the compiler executable (Languages:cc) got corrupted somehow when you installed the update. You should check that it is present and has the EXE file type. If it is, it may be corrupted, so you might want to try re-extracting it from the SHK archive.

Another thing to check is to make sure the language (auxtype) of the test.cc file is set to CC. If it is not, the shell would be trying to run another compiler or assembler, and the error could relate to that rather than to ORCA/C.

Another possible source of the problem would be if something is corrupting memory. As usual, that could be caused by software or hardware issues. One way to rule out issues with most system add-ons would be to see if the problem still occurs when you shift-boot.

[Dirk-]

The compiler executable is a GS/OS Shell Application, its size is 453,626 bytes. I extracted it again using Balloon, no difference. test.cc is a CC file, I also tried several others.

I then did a shift-boot and it really helped. I would have never expected that, because everything else works, ORCA/Pascal for example. I will try to track that down.

Thank you very much!

Dirk