Re: Compiling and Linking help

[Djekic Dusan <djekic.dusan@gmail.com>]

a.h is still being used by other developers, so unfortunately I am not
entitled to change it.
Could you suggest who might be able to give the right answer?

On 11/8/05, Aseem Rastogi <aseem@india.tejasnetworks.com> wrote:
> i would suggest rewrite a.h for better future.
>
> its not important what you get from ur predecessors but what you leave
> behind for ur successors. :)
>
> Djekic Dusan wrote:
>
> >unfortunately a.h also have some classes declarations and
> >implementations within it, and in b.h I declare pointers to some of
> >those classes.
> >
> >On 11/8/05, Aseem Rastogi <aseem@india.tejasnetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> >>may be this will works.
> >>
> >>include a.h in b.cpp and not in b.h if possible.
> >>
> >>Djekic Dusan wrote:
> >>
> >>>the previous message was a mistake, since I have not correctly the first line.
> >>>Yes, you are right about it. But, in reality, a.h includes many
> >>>functions, and including all of them is rather tedious job. Is there
> >>>any other solution?
> >>>
> >>>On 11/8/05, Aseem Rastogi <aseem@india.tejasnetworks.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>do not include a.h in b.h and declate a () as an extern function in b.h
> >>>>
> >>>>include a.h in main.cpp.
> >>>>
> >>>>it should work.
> >>>>
> >>>>Djekic Dusan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>a.h is not the file I could change. I am just using it from third
> >>>>>party. Files in my project are b.h, c.h, and so forth. I forgot that
> >>>>>all my .h files are enclosed within suitable #ifndef, #define, and
> >>>>>#endif. And the question is how to have .o files of all b, c, and so
> >>>>>forth files linked without having multiple definition linking error of
> >>>>>everything from a, since everything from a is defined twice:
> >>>>>1 - in b.o (since b.h includes a.h)
> >>>>>2 - in main.o (since main.cpp includes b.h which includes a.h)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On 11/8/05, Dima Sorkin <dima.sorkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>On 11/8/05, Djekic Dusan  wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>a.h
> >>>>>>>int a( ) { };
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>Hi.
> >>>>>>I have encountered this problem too.
> >>>>>>Explicitly writing "inline int a() {}" instead
> >>>>>>of your piece of code helped.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Or , if "a" will be a big function (not intended for inlining),
> >>>>>>you will have to
> >>>>>>move it's definition into a.cpp, and in a.h there will be
> >>>>>>only declaration.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>>Dima.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>The end is always good. If it's not good, it's not the end.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>The end is always good. If it's not good, it's not the end.
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