Embitz "no such file" build error

Pokitto Programming
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I restructured my code for readability and now I’m getting a single build error that says, “No such file” in Build Messages. In the Build Log it says,

“collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
arm-none-eabi-objcopy.exe: ‘.\build\mygame.elf’: No such file
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 18 seconds)
1 errors, 153 warnings (0 minutes, 18 seconds)”

Has anyone else come across this error before? I’m kind of at a loss for how to even begin to fix the issue. It appears to not create the elf file needed to create the bin.

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Found the issue. It was apparently caused by defining and initializing a variable inside of a header file instead of the corresponding cpp file.

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If build fails at collect, it means there was an error so severe, that the .elf file was not created

There are two tabs in the message winw: build log and build messages (?) . Check both when you have issues

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Yeah, neither of those places provided any useful information. I ended up migrating the entire codebase to Mbed which luckily gave slightly more descriptive error messages.

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We need to check you have verbose output selected. EmBitz gcc compiler will definitely tell you more than enough if maximum verbosity is on.

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Where is that located?

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I couldn’t find it as a setting but you can pass it on command line to the compiler.

Go to project build options, and then on both C and C++ tabs there is a list of other options (parameters passed as -something) in a column on the right.

Add -v to the end of the list, and GCC will output everything but the kitchen sink.

BUT: the error you described (multiple declaration) will most definitely be shown in the build log/build messages

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If I ever have a non-descriptive error message again, I’ll make sure to try with the verbose flag included. I won’t need to go through another major restructuring, so I don’t anticipate having any errors this difficult to decipher again.

Thank you for the help!