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How do I create function librarys? Is there some sort of special syntax I need to be using?
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It''s all about how you compile and link it.
Really, it depends on the build system you''re using.
For Microsoft Visual C++, when creating a new project choose ''Static Library.'' Add your functions as normal (remember that libraries don''t need main(), WinMain(), or DLLMain(), or any variation of same). Build. You should have a library.
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Really, it depends on the build system you''re using.
For Microsoft Visual C++, when creating a new project choose ''Static Library.'' Add your functions as normal (remember that libraries don''t need main(), WinMain(), or DLLMain(), or any variation of same). Build. You should have a library.
Superpig
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- sleeps in a ham-mock at www.thebinaryrefinery.cjb.net
Basically all you will have to do to create a function library is just create the code in normal C++ in one file and name it something like mylibrary .h . This is because The preprocessor will substitute all of that code in when you say, for example, #include "somelibrary.h" <- notice that there are quotes around the library, that just means that it is in the same directory as the C++ file. if it isn''t and is within subdirectories of it you could just include those directories in the file name.
quote:Original post by pointer0death
Basically all you will have to do to create a function library is just create the code in normal C++ in one file and name it something like mylibrary .h . This is because The preprocessor will substitute all of that code in when you say, for example, #include "somelibrary.h" <- notice that there are quotes around the library, that just means that it is in the same directory as the C++ file. if it isn''t and is within subdirectories of it you could just include those directories in the file name.
I think you''re a little confused. The code within the library - when you''re building it - is irrelevant.
What you''re describing sounds more like when you want to *use* the library. You need to use the same header files in the code using the library as you did when you made the library - so that the structures are the same layout, and so that the functions have correct return types and arguments.
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