Multiple "int Main()" errors(NEED HELP!)

[Xillez]

Now I'm learning while coding so to speak and I have an error I haven't got any idea on how to fix. The file is basicly a documantary of what I learn and how I picture it in my head, so if I forget, I can go back and look...

My errors:

1. "In function `int main()':"

2. "Redefinition of `int main()'" (I know that it sets
the value of Main again, but how can I fix it?)

3. "`int main()' previously defined here" (same as #2
but how can I fix it?)

My Code:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
 
#ifndef _AndOrStatement_cpp_
#define _AndOrStatement_cpp_
 
#include "LoopsCppTutorial.cpp"
 
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
    //Press "Compile & Run" to see what they output
 
    cout << "NOT: " << endl;
 
    //This equals 1 = false
    double var9;
    if (1 != 0)
    {
        var9 = true;
        cout << var9 << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        var9 = false;
        cout << var9 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    cout << "AND: " << endl;
 
    //This equals 0 = true
    double var;
    if (0&&0) 
    {
        var = true;
        cout << var << endl;
    }
    else 
    {
        var = false;
        cout << var << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    //This equals 1 = false
    double var2;
    if (1&&1) 
    {
        var2 = true;
        cout << var2 << endl;
    }
    else 
    {
        var2 = false;
        cout << var2 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    //This equals 0 = true
    double var3;
    if (1&&0) 
    {
        var3 = true;
        cout << var3 << endl;
    }
    else 
    {
        var3 = false;
        cout << var3 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    //This equals 0 = true
    double var4;
    if (0&&1) 
    {
        var4 = true;
        cout << var4 << endl;
    }
    else 
    {
        var4 = false;
        cout << var4 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    cout << "OR: " << endl;
    //This equals 0 = true
    double var5;
    if (0||0)
    {
        var5 = true;
        cout << var5 << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        var5 = false;
        cout << var5 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    //This equals 1 = false
    double var6;
    if (1||1)
    {
        var6 = true;
        cout << var6 << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        var6 = false;
        cout << var6 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    //This equals 1 = false
    double var7;
    if (0||1)
    {
        var7 = true;
        cout << var7 << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        var7 = false;
        cout << var7 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    //This equals 1 = false
    double var8;
    if (1||0)
    {
        var8 = true;
        cout << var8 << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        var8 = false;
        cout << var8 << endl;
    };
 
    //__________________________________________________________
 
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
 
#endif
 

This is a "Console Application" written in Dev-C++

X(sorry for bad english, I'm norwegian and that can explain a lot... )

[Nepomuk]

The code you've written looks fine, but in line 7 you include another file:

#include "LoopsCppTutorial.cpp"

If you remove that like, the code works without any problems. So I'm guessing that "LoopsCppTutorial.cpp" includes a main method?

One way to solve all of this would be to split your learning project further. Have you learned about header files and prototypes yet? If so, you could have a header file for this and every other step you take and none of your cpp files contain main methods. (Just call them something different.) Then you create one Main.cpp which would look something like this:

#include "step1.h"
#include "step2.h"
#include "step3.h"
 
int main() {
   // The main method from step 1 is now called "step1()":
   step1();
   // Similarly for step 2:
   step2();
   // And of course for step 3:
   step3();
   return 0;
}
 

Now when you compile your project it would have to include the other cpp files too. I'm not sure how Dev-C++ solves this (it might be automatic) but with g++ I would do something like this:

g++ Main.cpp step1.cpp step2.cpp step3.cpp

[Xillez]

yes, the "#include "LoopsCppTutorial.cpp"" includes a main method and that is the problem?

ok, and no I haven't learned about hearder files(I know why they are there and maybe what their task are but haven't learned the language so I can't write one... )

I know the code works without the #include thing because I used the "Compile & Run" option, but do I really need a header file? and if so how am I supposed to write it...

[weaknessforcats]

First, you never include code. That is, you never include anything that will occupy memory. As you can see, you get multiple definition errors.

Second, you don't need header files.

However, if you need to call a function in several.cpp files, you can't have the code in each file so you write the code once in one file and in the other files you insert the first line of the function followed by a semi-colon. This is a "function prototype" and it tells the compiler not to worry if the function you call is not defined (has no code) in this file.

If your program has 500 files, you will need to have this prototype in 499 files. If you change the function so that the first line is different, you have changed the prototype. So you need to make 499 other changes.---OR you have the prototype in one file that you #include in the other 499. This way you make your change once and rebuild your program.

A header file, then, is just a text file like your source code files. There's no particular magic in the name of the file. C uses .h extensions historically while C++ does not.

[Xillez]

ok, so I need to learn how to write the header files/learn how to join two or more files together?

[weaknessforcats]

Yes you do.

The process involves a makefile which contains info on the files to compile, instructions to the linker for combining all of the object files t make your .exe.

Depending upon your IDE, the makefile may be generated for you when you click build on a project.

The make utility reads the makefile and launches the various processes. This is the build.

[Xillez]

ok, I'll get right on it... thanks for the help...

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