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Re: No Robot Code may be caused by link error

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Originally Posted by mikets View Post
I think we hit this years ago. If I remember correctly, the explanation was that Wind River doesn't complain about missing variables because they could be part of WPILib which are linked dynamically to the kernel when the robot code is loaded. Therefore, they will generate run-time error but not compile time error. And the way to catch it is through the debug console.
This is the explanation I got from Joe Hershberger when i was confused on a similar issue.

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It's a single mode OS... if you have a header that defines the symbols and you are not trying to statically link the library in, then you just need to load your library. The symbols will be looked up at runtime.
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