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16 years ago

Nios II - mixed C and C++ project problem

Hi everybody, I'm a newbie with Nios II IDE (Version: 9.0 Build: 132) and have following problem when building project with both C and C++ (.cpp) files. - project with source files (al...
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16 years ago

Use extern "C" when mixing C++ and C code

__cplusplus will be automatically defined if your compiler is a C++ compiler

Use this in your header files ... 

#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {     // Make sure we have C-declarations in C++ programs # endif
    void yourCFunction(); 
# if defined(__cplusplus)
  }# endif

Have a look a this link

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html (http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html)

Best regards