I just tried this with an old static lib we had here and it seems to
work fine. Perhaps you are just getting bit by C++ name mangling?
If you look at all the system header files you will see that most of
them have something like the following around function declarations:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
<function declarations>
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
This tells the C++ compiler not to 'mangle' these names. Mangling is
how C++ does better type checking and function overloading - it actually
encrypts extra info into the name.
If the header you are using for the .lib does not override this, you are
trying to link to a mangled name, which does not exist in the lib.
Hope that helps.
Best Regards,
-jjf
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 6:04 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Using compilited C libs with C++
Is there a way get a static library originally compiled for C using
Codewarrior to link with in a project with the C++ options turned on. I
don't have access to the source code to compile it myself and the author
doesn't seem to be responding to any email. I'm using CW6 on Windows 98
Thanx
D
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