how to handle name mangling in a shared C library

[Randy Yates]

I have a library (let's call it "mylib") that is written and compiled
using C which I would like to use with both C and C++ applications.
The problem is that if I add the "extern "C"" construct in front of
the function prototypes in mylib.h, then when mylib.o is built using
the C compiler this keyword is not recognized (since mylib.c also
includes mylib.h) and the compiler barfs with errors.

Is there a good solution to this problem?
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Randy Yates
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
ra*********@sonyericsson.com, 919-472-1124

[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Randy Yates wrote:

I have a library (let's call it "mylib") that is written and compiled
using C which I would like to use with both C and C++ applications.
The problem is that if I add the "extern "C"" construct in front of
the function prototypes in mylib.h, then when mylib.o is built using
the C compiler this keyword is not recognized (since mylib.c also
includes mylib.h) and the compiler barfs with errors.

Is there a good solution to this problem?
--

For cases like this every C++ compiler has a predefined macro: __cplusplus

You use it like this

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* Your things here */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

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Karl Heinz Buchegger
kb******@gascad.at

[Randy Yates]

Karl Heinz Buchegger <kb******@gascad.at> writes:

Randy Yates wrote:

I have a library (let's call it "mylib") that is written and compiled
using C which I would like to use with both C and C++ applications.
The problem is that if I add the "extern "C"" construct in front of
the function prototypes in mylib.h, then when mylib.o is built using
the C compiler this keyword is not recognized (since mylib.c also
includes mylib.h) and the compiler barfs with errors.

Is there a good solution to this problem?
--

For cases like this every C++ compiler has a predefined macro: __cplusplus

You use it like this

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* Your things here */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

But of course. I knew there was something like this defined by the compiler
but couldn't remember the string - thank you Karl Heinz.
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Randy Yates
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
ra*********@sonyericsson.com, 919-472-1124