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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: please help: cannot link c-library into kde-program
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-12-19 16:15:23
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, claus wilke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this is probably a stupid question, but since I cannot resolve it with the gcc
> man pages, I am asking this on this list. There are certainly people here who
> know the answer.
> 
> I have a c-library that I want to link into a kde-program. However, gcc doesn't
> recognize the symbols in the library. Any -l<libname> and -L<path to the
> library> doesn't help. Even giving the library directly as an input file name
> in addition to the object files does not help. So I assume that c-libraries are
> somewhat different from c++ libraries and cannot simply be linked together. How
> can I resolve this?

Probably that library's header files are lacking this:

#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif

:
: The prototypes and stuff goes here
:

#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)
}
#endif 

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