C - cs50.h GetString error

Question

Hello I am completely new to the world of programming an I am attempting to take Harvard's CS50 course online.
While making my "Hello World" program, I downloaded 'cs50.h' to define

GetString

and

string

(at least I think). So this is the code I wrote:

file.c:

#include "cs50.h"

#include <stdio.h>



int main(int argc, string argv[])

{

    string name;

    printf("Enter your name: ");

    name = GetString();

    printf("Hello, %s\n", name);

}

However, whenever I try to

make file

, this happens:

cc     file.c   -o file

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:

"_GetString", referenced from:

  _main in file-JvqYUC.o

ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

make: *** [file] Error 1

Here is a link to the cs50.h file if it can help: http://dkui3cmikz357.cloudfront.net/library50/c/cs50-library-c-3.0/cs50.h

I would like to know why I get this error and how I can fix it. Please help.

Answer 1

It seems that you forgot to download and link to project cs50.c file from http://dkui3cmikz357.cloudfront.net/library50/c/cs50-library-c-3.0/cs50.c

*.h usually contain only declarations. *.c (for C) and *.cpp (for C++) contains implementations.

There is GetSting function implementation from this class:

string GetString(void)
{
    // growable buffer for chars
    string buffer = NULL;

    // capacity of buffer
    unsigned int capacity = 0;

    // number of chars actually in buffer
    unsigned int n = 0;

    // character read or EOF
    int c;

    // iteratively get chars from standard input
    while ((c = fgetc(stdin)) != '\n' && c != EOF)
    {
        // grow buffer if necessary
        if (n + 1 > capacity)
        {
            // determine new capacity: start at 32 then double
            if (capacity == 0)
                capacity = 32;
            else if (capacity <= (UINT_MAX / 2))
                capacity *= 2;
            else
            {
                free(buffer);
                return NULL;
            }

            // extend buffer's capacity
            string temp = realloc(buffer, capacity * sizeof(char));
            if (temp == NULL)
            {
                free(buffer);
                return NULL;
            }
            buffer = temp;
        }

        // append current character to buffer
        buffer[n++] = c;
    }

    // return NULL if user provided no input
    if (n == 0 && c == EOF)
        return NULL;

    // minimize buffer
    string minimal = malloc((n + 1) * sizeof(char));
    strncpy(minimal, buffer, n);
    free(buffer);

    // terminate string
    minimal[n] = '\0';

    // return string
    return minimal;
}

C - cs50.h GetString error

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