k_event_init cannot get to work

[Elith]

So, I follow the zephyr docs (https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/kernel/services/synchronization/events.html)

and define an event as:

struct k_event my_event;
k_event_init(&my_event);

However I get the error:

error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '&' token
   41 | k_event_init(&my_event);

It works fine with 

K_EVENT_DEFINE(my_event);

So what is going on?

[Hieu]

Hi Elith,

Where are you calling the "manual" declaration and initialization?

The structure declaration can be placed outside of a function, but the function call must be inside a function. I suspect that this is not satisfied.

Hieu

[Elith]

Thank you, that was the case - I am a novice in C :-)

[Hieu]

No problem. Glad to help.
Feel free to close the case at your convenience