Question

I’m not C programmer, and I’m trying to apply patch to project that compiles fine with MSVC, but patch is provided for *nix. When I try to compile patched project with nmake I get this error:

error C2054: expected '(' to follow '__private'

Code that raises this error is this:

private drawlist *
drawlist_append(p2mem *mem, drawlist_head *head)
{
    drawlist *d = p2mem_alloc(mem, sizeof(drawlist));
    if (!d) return 0;
    memset(d, 0, sizeof(drawlist));
    d->color = gx_no_color_index;
    d->next = 0;
    d->prev = head->last;
    head->last = d;
    (d->prev) ? (d->prev->next = d) : (head->first = d);
    return d;
}

By googling, I suspect that MSVC doesn’t accept this kind of declaration, but I have no idea how to change the code, because as mentioned I’m not C/C++ programmer. Can anyone assist how to change this private function call so that it is valid for MSVC?

Answer 1

if drawlist_append is a member function declared inside class,
you could try:

private:
drawlist* drawlist_append(p2mem *mem, drawlist_head *head)

If drawlist_append is a standalone function, you just remove private, you could try this:

drawlist* drawlist_append(p2mem *mem, drawlist_head *head)

The other possibility is that patch provider meant static instead of private.
You could try add below macro for *nix C:

#define private static