Flex (Lex, not actionscript or w/e) Error

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Published on 2010-04-14T05:10:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 6:13 UTC
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I'm totally new to flex.

I'm getting a build error when using flex. That is, I've generated a .c file using flex, and, when running it, am getting this error:

1>lextest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int __cdecl isatty(int)" (?isatty@@YAHH@Z)
1>C:\...\lextest.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

here is the lex file I'm using (grabbed from here):

/*** Definition section ***/

%{
/* C code to be copied verbatim */
#include <stdio.h>
%}

/* This tells flex to read only one input file */
%option noyywrap


%%
    /*** Rules section ***/

    /* [0-9]+ matches a string of one or more digits */
[0-9]+  {
            /* yytext is a string containing the matched text. */
            printf("Saw an integer: %s\n", yytext);
        }

.       {   /* Ignore all other characters. */   }

%%
/*** C Code section ***/

int main(void)
{
    /* Call the lexer, then quit. */
    yylex();
    return 0;
}

As well, why do I have to put a 'main' function in the lex syntax code? What I'd like is to be able to call yylex(); from another c file.

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