From:	Armando Jorge Sousa <asousa AT fe DOT up DOT pt>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: libraries headaches
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:31:37 +0000
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To link code compiled in C to your C++ programs,
on the C++ header file use

extern "C" {
// C functions definitions here
// ...
}

It is standard C++.




sam wrote:

> I have been trying too convert some MSC libraries for use with djgpp and
> am encountering some problems.
>
> I have modified my (future) library code and saved it as .CC compiled
> and created library. After several days of fiddling and searching while
> attempting to compile a test.cc I found out that libraries must start
> with lib and specified in RHIDE without the leading LIB and trailing .A
> Ok so now RHIDE is finding it, but still complains about undefined
> reference,.Eventualy I tried it from the command line and only when
> I renamed test.cc to test.c it worked but not in RHIDE.
>
> So who can tell me how to name my functions so that I can write C++ code
> and libraries.
> I have stumbled across the term 'name mangling'???
> What are shared libraries? C & C++?

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