Ohhhhh… Those errors are from the change in compiler version. It seems the new version (3.x and/or 4.x) doesn’t like lines in #defines being wrapped by adding a backslash at the end. Just remove the backslashes and extra whitespace and put the contents of each #define on a single line.
The short version of the libgccvb.h story is as follows:
A formal committee was never convened to make a standard, so all the code that was discovered, developed, etc. early on was traded between various VB hackers until it was eventually decided to “slap something together” and distribute it with the (then, “state-of-the-art”) GCC 2.95-based compiler/tools (which started life as an NEC PCFX compiler, BTW).
However, since there was no central repository (until PlanetVB, but even then, there was no impetus to keep it updated), as more and more was discovered/developed, each hacker tended to cobble together his own version of the “library”, which he would then have to distribute along with anything he shared, since it wouldn’t compile with the “standard” file. Most of the files are very similar, but there have been a few major changes/additions (like the aforementioned WAM/WA change).
The End 😉
There have been many attempts to start another, more standardized library (and keep it up to date this time… for real!), but so far, nothing has materialized…
In addition to the libgccvb.h story, there is also a “crt0.o” story, but it’s much shorter and only really interesting to history buffs (like the Bound High Civil War Reenactment Society), so don’t worry about it 😉
