Another weird error...permission denied?

bananavex · July 21, 2020, 1:09am

Back at it again with another error:

error: unable to open output file 'build/src/main.o': 'permission denied'

what is causing this??

2775Josh · July 21, 2020, 1:11am

This happens to me when working with GitHub or similar version control. Are you using something like that?

bananavex · July 21, 2020, 1:12am

Yep. (20 characters)

jpearman · July 21, 2020, 1:17am

Hopefully the build folder is not under version control.
Were there any other errors in the output tab ?

2775Josh · July 21, 2020, 1:19am

Yep, my team’s GitHub repo has a commit called “got rid of the pointless build files”, that should be your first step

bananavex · July 21, 2020, 1:36am

No other errors. When i try to open the build folder in file explorer it says access denied

2775Josh · July 21, 2020, 1:45am

Remove the “build” folder from your GitHub repo, then download the file from GitHub and see if it works. (Hint, hint, it should. )

jpearman · July 21, 2020, 1:53am

are you on Mac or windows ? (windows I assume) so there must be some other program or something that’s either protected the folder or something like that, anti-malware ?

bananavex · July 21, 2020, 2:09am

I’m on windows (20 char again)

bananavex · July 21, 2020, 2:33am

Wait remove the entire build folder? How will the code execute?

rjacoby442 · July 21, 2020, 3:09am

It will recompile that folder. That folder should be in your .gitignore file so you don’t accidentally commit it. Compiled code generally shouldn’t be tracked by git or any version control system.

Edit for extra information:

main.o is a compiled object file. It is a non-executable compiled version of what I assume is main.cpp Compiled object files get linked together with other ones such as ones from other files in your project or libraries to form the executable(this is how it works on pretty much any modern c/c++ compiler but I’m not sure for V5 because its an embedded system).