Question GCC 12 to 14 Compile Issues

I will try to do that later today, getting ready to leave from work
I will have to install gcc-12 on the fedora 41 VM since it only shows gcc-14.  I am also going to try and copy the working code over to the new VM as well.  I will report back tonight hopefully.

Thanks again for your help!

kevin

Ironfist,
It seems that after I installed gcc-12 and changed the Makefile to use "gcc-12" it compiled except a different error now.  I'll paste it here, will not have time to look into it much until later tonight or in the morning though.

Apparently they've been implementing a lot of security measures with redhat:
Position Independent Executable

    RHEL 8 (2019) – PIE enabled by default for all executables compiled with GCC.
    RHEL 9 (2022) – Continues enforcing PIE as default for enhanced security.

Since RHEL 8, all binaries built with GCC must be PIE unless explicitly disabled (-no-pie).

From what I understand you can add (maybe -fPIE ?) -fPIC to the compiler CFLAGS (or MYFLAGS).
Or compile with -no-pie which it doesn't recommend.

dummy_mob is a global variable that can be used in other c files because of the extern in db.h.  It could be made a static variable that would fix the PIE issue except that it needs to be used elsewhere.

Hi,
I did not come across that yet, but I am glad you mentioned or found it. That does make sense since I moved to a newer version of Fedora. I could compile with the -no-pie and it would not give any errors, but I could not launch the game so I knew just adding <make -no-pie> probably was not the solution after all lol.

I did not try the -fPIE, or maybe I did, but I will try that again in the morning and see what happens.
Thanks for the info on the dummy_mob!

Thanks,
Kevin

Good morning,
I added the -fPIE to the MYFLAGS in the makefile and did a make clean and make and that seems to have resolved the issue. I did not even think about red hat upgrading, but it makes sense though.

Thanks for the assistance!

Kevin

Glad it worked