From: dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems Linking
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:26:55 GMT
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23yrold3yrold wrote:

> Hello. I'm trying to write a game across a few .CPP files, with global
> variables and function prototypes residing in an .H file. If I #include the
> .H file in one .CPP, the others give "undeclared identifier"errors, and if I
> #include in all of them, it gives "multiple declaration" errors. All of
> which I can understand; I just want to find a way to get it all to work
> together. Thanks muchly in advance.

You shouldn't put global variables in the .h file.  Just declare them
(using "extern") in the .h file, and then put the variables themselves
in one (and only one) of the .cpp files.

S.