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Leo
Leo

Reputation: 4428

Inno Setup Unknown identifier - is this perhaps a syntax error

I have not been using Inno Setup for some years, but now I needed to rerun an .iss file from 2014. It used to work, but now I get Unknown identifieron this line:

[Setup]
AppName=errw32
AppVerName=errw32 (ver 0.58)
DefaultDirName={pf}\errw32

[Code]

{ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//// Messages etc }

function myassert(bTrue : boolean ; sMsg : string ): boolean;
begin
end; { myassert }

function err_dir_Known(): string;
begin
end; { err_dir_Known }

function Check_err_dir_Ok()                           : boolean;
begin
   if not myassert(length(err_dir_Known()) > 0, 'err_dir unknown in Check_err_dir_Ok')
      then exit;
end; { Check_err_dir_Ok }

The error message is:

Line 21:
Column 11:
Unknown identifier 'myassert'

Note that the function myassert is defined above this error in the script file.

Is this perhaps a syntax error now (in Pascal)? Or what is wrong?

EDIT: Included a complete example that fails.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2052

Answers (1)

Leo
Leo

Reputation: 4428

Thanks to Martin Prikryl who told me there was no error on the line Inno complained about. Tracking it down I found it was the comment that screwed the compiler up:

{ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//// Messages etc }

But now I wonder if there is anything wrong with this comment?

EDIT Yes, I guess the two comment styles clashes here, see https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse2.html

Upvotes: 1

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