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From: strollo@ssd.kodak.com (larry strollo )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Mixing C with C++
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.133931.6716@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 13:39:31 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.064847.16929@cs.nott.ac.uk> gas@cs.nott.ac.uk () writes:

>> 
>> I've had quite a response so I thought other people might be
>> interested in the necessary details.

...... particulars deleted ........

>> 
>> This is the easy bit.  The second step involves linking using C++ and
>> not C.  Most of my replies pointed this out, but I had done this and
>> still encountered problems (sorry for not pointing this out before).

I'm confused.  Since the linker is just linking object files (generated from
C I might add), what is special about the C++ "linker" ?  Do you really mean
that some special C++ libraries are linked in (in which case I should be able
to do the same thing by just explicitly calling out the libraries in the link
command, shouldn't I) ?

>> The crucial step is that the file with main() needs to be compiled
>> using C++ even if it is in a c file.  Thanks to those people who
>> pointed this out.
>> 

I'm working on a set of programs that are going to be implemented in C++,
but must provide an interface callable from C.  It's probably not going to 
be reasonable for me to insist that the user have Cfront.  Am I in trouble ? 

>> I felt a bit of an idiot when I realised the solution, but several of
>> my replies missed this too, so I don't feel quite so bad....:-)
>> 
>> Alan Shepherd
>> 
>> 

Not nearly as bad as I'm going to feel if the answer to my last question
is "yes" !    |8-}

Larry Strollo
strollo@ssd.kodak.com]


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