[C Static Structs]

Hi All,

Im trying to solve a problem with C struct.
This is the structure of the struct in header file that is 'included':

struct plantbl {
char max_harmonic[9];
char max_power_of_t;
signed char *arg_tbl;
double *lon_tbl;
double *lat_tbl;
double *rad_tbl;
double distance;
};


To use this struct, the current code is in this format:

static struct plantbl FAR mer404 = {
{ 11, 14, 10, 11, 4, 5, 2, 0, 0,},
6,
merargs,
mertabl,
mertabb,
mertabr,
3.8709830979999998e-01,
};

However the above code produces this error:

/Users/bliss/Documents/iPhone_Programming/My XCode 4.1 Apps/SwissTest/swemptab.c:1091: error: variable 'mer404' has initializer but incomplete type

FAR btw is a Macro defined as:


# ifndef FAR 
# define FAR
# endif
# define MALLOC malloc 
# define CALLOC calloc 
# define FREE free 
#else
# ifndef FAR
# define FAR far
# endif
# ifdef __BORLANDC__
# include <alloc.h>
# define MALLOC farmalloc 
# define CALLOC farcalloc 
# define FREE farfree 
# else
# define MALLOC _fmalloc
# define CALLOC _fcalloc
# define FREE _ffree
# endif
#endif


So anyway...I decide to recode the mer404 to something I thought will be equivalent to the intention of the code above but hopefully does not result in a error...
so I changed the code to:


char placeholder[9] = { 11, 14, 10, 11, 4, 5, 2, 0, 0,};

static struct plantbl FAR mer404 = {
placeholder,
6,
merargs,
mertabl,
mertabb,
mertabr,
3.8709830979999998e-01,
};

but I still get the following error:


/Users/bliss/Documents/iPhone_Programming/My XCode 4.1 Apps/SwissTest/swemptab.c:1080: error: variable 'mer404' has initializer but incomplete type


Now I don't understand why this would be happening....I am trying to feed in values to each of the 7 elements/properties of the struct plantabl..........

Can someone enlighten me on what to do to solve this problem please??? Thank you very much.