I have Appnote AN738 and the CANbus lib that goes with it.
As a first step to see if I can get the CANbus going, I am trying
example18 in the pdf.

It won't compile w/o errors in the initiation and since this is my first
attempt at both C (MCC18) and CANbus I need some help to locate
whats wrong.

The compiler error msg is pasted below (line #24) in the source.
TIA

// EXAMPLE 18: SAMPLE APPLICATION PROGRAM 1
// From:  AN00738b (PIC18C CAN Routines in C).pdf
// The following is a portion of a sample application program
// that requires all CAN Standard Identifier messages to be
// accepted.

// #include <file> searches for file in std.libs first
// #incluse "file" searches for file in project dir first

//#include <p18cxxx.h>     // p18cxxx.h must have current processor defined
#include "p18F458.h"  // for TRISB and PORTB etc -declarations
//#include "can18xx8.c"  // has the def. of BYTE etc
#include "can18xx8.h"   // include in each sourcefile that calls the CAN
routines


// Application specific variable declarations


// CAN module related variables
unsigned long NewMessage;
BYTE NewMessageData[8];
BYTE MessageData[8];
BYTE NewMessageLen;
CAN_RX_MSG_FLAGS NewMessageFlags;    <<== AN738-EX18.c:24:Error: syntax error


BYTE RxFilterMatch;

// Application specific initialization code follows
// Application specific initialization code follows
// Application specific initialization code follows


// Initialize CAN module with no message filtering
CANInitialize(SJW, BRP, PHSEG1, PHSEG2, PROPSEG, config);

// Main application loop
while(1)
{
  // Application specific logic here

  // Check for CAN message
  if ( CANIsRxReady() )
  {
    CANReceiveMessage(&NewMessage,
      NewMessageData,
      &NewMessageLen,
      &NewMessageFlags);
    if ( NewMessageFlags & CAN_RX_OVERFLOW )
    {
      // Rx overflow occurred; handle it
    }
    if ( NewMessageFlags & CAN_RX_INVALID_MSG )
    {
      // Invalid message received; handle it
    }
    if ( NewMessageFlags & CAN_RX_XTD_FRAME )
    {
      // Extended Identifier received; handle it
    }
    else
    {
      // Standard Identifier received.
    }
    if ( NewMessageFlags & CAN_RX_RTR_FRAME )
    {
      // RTR frame received
    }
    else
    {
      // Regular frame received.
    }

    // Extract receiver filter match, if it is to be used
    RxFilterMatch = NewMessageFlags & CAN_RX_FILTER_BITS;
  }

  // Process received message
  // Process received message
  // Process received message


  // Transmit a message due to previously received message or
  // due to application logic itself.
  if ( CANIsTxReady() )
  {
    MessageData[0] = 0x01;
    CANSendMessage( 0x02,
                    MessageData,
                    1,
                    CAN_TX_PRIORITY_0 &
                    CAN_TX_STD_FRAME &
                    CAN_TX_NO_RTR_FRAME);
  }

  // Other application specific logic
  // Other application specific logic
  // Other application specific logic

} // Do this forever

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