Comment 1 by camilo.aguilar:

I'm also puzzled by an error happening only on Linux: 
camilo@ubuntu:~/shares/Development/go/src/github.com/c4milo/govix$ make
go build
# github.com/c4milo/govix
38: error: 'free' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [build] Error 2
In OSX it compiles just fine.
Error messages are very useless in CGO.

Comment 2:

Labels changed: added repo-main, release-none, suggested.

Comment 3:

Could either of you try to provide a more minimized test case for this issue? 
Preferably a self-contained .go file that doesn't depend on any system headers.
I spent a little bit trying to repro this issue, and haven't had any success as the
error messages cgo outputs seem adequately informative to me.  E.g., based on the first
"expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'LPVOID'" error I tried reproducing that based
on the code from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3888569/expected-specifier-qualifier-list-before:
$ cat issue8442.go
package main
/*
typedef struct {
  foo *f;
} foo;
int bar(void);
*/
import "C"
var _ = C.bar
func main() {
}
$ go run issue8442.go
# command-line-arguments
./issue8442.go:5:3: error: unknown type name 'foo'
   foo *f;
   ^

Comment 4:

> ... Could either of you try to provide a more minimized test case for this issue? 
Is http://play.golang.org/p/T8qEZaV_Vu not small enough? Please, explain.
> ... Preferably a self-contained .go file that doesn't depend on any system headers.
As I understand this issue, it is C "include" statement order that causes the error and
misunderstanding here. So we won't be able to have sample code without "system headers".
> ... the error messages cgo outputs seem adequately informative to me. ...
Are you saying the quoted above message:
37: error: 'EnumProcesses' undeclared (first use in this function)
is informative? But, like rogerpack2005 says, EnumProcesses "... *is* declared in one of
the include files". cgo is wrong here.
Alex

Comment 5:

I would guess that mdempsky can't recreate the problem because he isn't running Windows
(and neither am I).  I don't understand how the header files could be the problem, but
if they are in fact the problem, it should be possible to put together a standalone test
case that provides the header files being used.
Note that the error here is coming from gcc, not cgo.  It might help to show us the "go
build -x" output.

Comment 6 by rogerpack2005:

Maybe this one? http://play.golang.org/p/qVc3hJYve-

Comment 7:

Thanks for the example.  It uses various undefined names, and that seems to be the
problem.  Here is a simpler case:
package p
 
//int F(UNDEF*);
import "C"
 
func F() {
    C.F(nil);
}
> go build foo.go
# command-line-arguments
37: error: 'F' undeclared (first use in this function)
Running cgo with the -debug-gcc option gives me this:
$ gcc -E -dM -xc -m64 -I /tmp/go-build581285178/command-line-arguments/_obj/ -
<<EOF
#line 3 "/home/iant/foo.go"
int F(UNDEF*);
#include <stddef.h> /* for ptrdiff_t and size_t below */
/* Define intgo when compiling with GCC.  */
typedef ptrdiff_t intgo;
typedef struct { char *p; intgo n; } _GoString_;
typedef struct { char *p; intgo n; intgo c; } _GoBytes_;
_GoString_ GoString(char *p);
_GoString_ GoStringN(char *p, int l);
_GoBytes_ GoBytes(void *p, int n);
char *CString(_GoString_);
void *_CMalloc(size_t);
EOF
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$ gcc -w -Wno-error -o/tmp/go-build581285178/command-line-arguments/_obj//_cgo_.o
-gdwarf-2 -c -xc -I /tmp/go-build581285178/command-line-arguments/_obj/ -m64 -
<<EOF
#line 3 "/home/iant/foo.go"
int F(UNDEF*);
#include <stddef.h> /* for ptrdiff_t and size_t below */
/* Define intgo when compiling with GCC.  */
typedef ptrdiff_t intgo;
typedef struct { char *p; intgo n; } _GoString_;
typedef struct { char *p; intgo n; intgo c; } _GoBytes_;
_GoString_ GoString(char *p);
_GoString_ GoStringN(char *p, int l);
_GoBytes_ GoBytes(void *p, int n);
char *CString(_GoString_);
void *_CMalloc(size_t);
#line 1 "not-declared"
void __cgo_f_1_1(void) { __typeof__(F) *__cgo_undefined__; }
#line 1 "not-type"
void __cgo_f_1_2(void) { F *__cgo_undefined__; }
#line 1 "not-const"
void __cgo_f_1_3(void) { enum { __cgo__undefined__ = (F)*1 }; }
#line 1 "completed"
int __cgo__1 = __cgo__2;
EOF
/home/iant/foo.go:3:7: error: unknown type name 'UNDEF'
not-declared: In function '__cgo_f_1_1':
not-declared:1:37: error: 'F' undeclared (first use in this function)
not-declared:1:37: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in
not-type: In function '__cgo_f_1_2':
not-type:1:26: error: unknown type name 'F'
not-const: In function '__cgo_f_1_3':
not-const:1:55: error: 'F' undeclared (first use in this function)
completed: At top level:
completed:1:16: error: '__cgo__2' undeclared here (not in a function)
37: error: 'F' undeclared (first use in this function)
The error message is correct in a sense--F is not declared because the declaration is
erroneous--but in context it is very unhelpful.

Comment 8:

Ian,
Here is what I see here. If I run this http://play.golang.org/p/T8qEZaV_Vu as is, I get:
C:\go\path\mine\src\issue8442>go run a.go
# command-line-arguments
37: error: 'EnumProcesses' undeclared (first use in this function)
C:\go\path\mine\src\issue8442>
But if I change the program a little:
C:\go\path\mine\src\issue8442>hg diff
diff -r 81919437b8db a.go
--- a/a.go      Fri Aug 08 10:24:16 2014 +1000
+++ b/a.go      Fri Aug 08 10:24:48 2014 +1000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package main
+// #include <windows.h>
 // #include <psapi.h>
-// #include <windows.h>
 // #cgo LDFLAGS: -lpsapi
 // #cgo CFLAGS: -DPSAPI_VERSION=1
 import "C"
C:\go\path\mine\src\issue8442>go run a.go
# command-line-arguments
.\a.go:22: cannot use (*C.uint)(unsafe.Pointer(&aProcesses[0])) (type *C.uint) as type
*C.DWORD in argument to _Cfunc_EnumProcesses
.\a.go:23: undefined: sizeof
.\a.go:23: type DWORD is not an expression
.\a.go:24: cannot use (*C.uint)(unsafe.Pointer(&cbNeeded)) (type *C.uint) as type
*C.DWORD in argument to _Cfunc_EnumProcesses
.\a.go:25: non-bool ok (type C.BOOL) used as if condition
C:\go\path\mine\src\issue8442>
The later error messages are good, because the call does not much function parameters.
But original message is misleading - it is not helpful.
I hope it helps.
Alex

Comment 9:

CL https://golang.org/cl/129160043 mentions this issue.

Comment 10:

This issue was closed by revision ba30c08.

Status changed to Fixed.

Comment 11 by rogerpack2005:

Looks good thanks!