Get a "general" C-programming book/tutorial (there are several available
online for free). Read about declartion and defintion of variables and
the extern keyword.

Martin Thomas wrote:
> Get a "general" C-programming book/tutorial (there are several available
> online for free). Read about declartion and defintion of variables and
> the extern keyword.

I use extern keyword but compiler show warning :
axes.c:18: warning: 'Ax_p_x' initialized and declared 'extern'

I declare it on axes.c file, and structure is define on axes.h .
I want access to this structuro from main function.
I define this in axes.c:
extern volatile Ax_parameter Ax_p_x = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};
In file axes.h define:
typedef struct {
    DWORD Vactual;
    DWORD Vbefore;
    double Vmax;
          double Vneed;
    double Verror;
    double Acceleration;
    double Sactual;
    double Sstep;
    double Sabsolute;
    double Serror;
    double Time;
    DWORD Timer;
    double Terror;
    } Ax_parameter ;

But if access this structure from main then compiler show error :
cnc1.c:68: error: 'Ax_p_x' undeclared (first use in this function)

using this structure in axes.c file is OK

regards

If define onnly easy variable like int or char :
extern volatile char c;

then can use on all source file but with structure it donn't work.

Now it work.
In header file I define
extern volatile Ax_parameter Ax_p_x;
In source file I define
volatile Ax_parameter Ax_p_x = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};

and work all.

thx all.

regards

'extern' means 'this variable is instantiated somewhere else', it is
only used for 'declarations' not 'definitions'.

When you initialise a variable, you can only do that on a 'definition'.
So you had a definition declared extern, which makes no sense. It will
ignore teh extern keyword and instantiate the variable. But if you do
that in a header you end up an instance every time the header is
included and the compiler or linker will complain if you include it more
than once.