I have copied a scetch for the ESP8266 from the Internet , compiled and used it . OK everything is fine . But when I want to develop it on my own , the compilation fails when simply changing the variable "int x" to "long x;" , and the compilator returns the message "collect2.exe: error: ld returned…

Declaration of variables

johnwasser August 30, 2016, 11:31am 4

KalleL:
"collect2.exe: error: ld returned 5 exit status .

exit status 1
Error compiling for board Arduino/Genuino Uno."

Let me guess. You are using Windows XP?

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