Re: Mixing C and CPP files.
WISEMANOFNARNIA wrote:
I have a project that was written in C several years ago. To upgrade
it, I can keep the C files, but I have to add one CPP file. I don't
have the old C compiler any more, instead I have Visual Studio 2005.
That's good enough, AFAICT.
So I think I have to compile the whole thing as C++, in order to
include that one CPP file.
No, you don't. The linker will link the files fine. Just make sure
that the headers have conditional 'extern "C"' modifiers in them,
similar to
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
.... function declarations
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
That way both C and C++ compilers create proper external symbol names,
and no compilation error or linking error will result.
> How would I do that so that both types of
file are included and the 'C' files are compiled even though they are
not C++?
I don't understand the question.
V
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