Help me to resolve undefined reference

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Ku Cheng wrote:

> Andriy,
>
> After putting the prototype of DisconnectNamedPipe( ) in the winbase.h
> file, finally my program can link successfully. Previously I put "extern
> bool DsiconnnecrNamedPipe ..." in my source file to avoid compilation
> error. But it still failed at linking phase. What is the difference of
> putting the declaration in winbase.h and in my local file? How is the
> winbase.h  used in "winemaker" and "configure"? Is there any documentation
> explaining this?

   This is a regular C vs. C++ issue, not specific to Winelib. When you
put it in your source file you were probably missing the "C"  in extern
"C" ... In winebase.h all function declarations are enclosed with:

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
...
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif


  So because "C" was missing, the compiler assumed it was a C++ function
and mangled the name.  Then at link time there was no function by that
(mangled) name.



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