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What is the best way to have your project set up for a large project (and a few Qs)

skilofreak · 2002-03-20T22:16:16

I am working on making making a first step toward a game, and i need to know what the best way to set up you project as. the way im doing it now i am excluding all cpp files from the build except for my one with the main in it, and doing #ifndefs in the h file then before the #endif including the cpp file. (currently all the files are in my project as well) like so: #ifndef _DEBUG_H_ #define _DEBUG_H_ //class #include "Debug.cpp" #endif and currently then i include the .h file from the cpp file (im not sure if i needed to do that). also do i need #ifndef in my cpp files too? i think the way im doing it will work, but im getting an odd error that say basiclly "constructors cant return a value" my prototype is in my .h under public: DebugClass(); and my implamintation is in the cpp: DebugClass::DebugClass() { //error points here but i bet the problem is on the line //above //one line of code (not a return) here } im guessing that the way im setting up the project is the problem so any help would be appriciated. also (just out of curiousity), I was wondering if fstream is different in the win32 envirnment than in the conolse (i just want to output to a file, but it didnt have the open() function). Is there anywhere online where i can learn howto use the win32 project version if there is one?

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Started by skilofreak March 19, 2002 12:32 PM

13 comments, last by skilofreak 22 years ago

Kylotan

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March 20, 2002 02:11 PM

It means "at any point in the future, an ANSI-compliant compiler can give an error when compiling such code". Just because it works now, doesn''t mean you should rely on it. Maybe some future compiler will optimise their symbol table in such a way that the leading underscore truly becomes reserved, and then your code will need fixing.

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Buster

100

March 20, 2002 02:17 PM

>> Drop the leading underscore - it's illegal.

It is? I compile code every day with this in it...

#ifndef __YERMOMMA_H__
#define __YERMOMMA_H__

and it works just fine.

Standards are for sissies.

[edited by - Buster on March 20, 2002 3:18:45 PM]

mentat

122

March 20, 2002 03:02 PM

how old are you?

(sorry but that was the first thing came into my mind when I read the last sentence of your post)

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Void

126

March 20, 2002 08:58 PM

Hmm, so it seems prefixes are reversed for std and compiler implementation. Just like member variables, we should stick with postfixes instead.

Spiral

122

March 20, 2002 10:16 PM

quote:Original post by Buster
>> Drop the leading underscore - it''s illegal.

It is? I compile code every day with this in it...

#ifndef __YERMOMMA_H__
#define __YERMOMMA_H__

and it works just fine.

Standards are for sissies.

quote:
Original post by Kylotan
It means "at any point in the future, an ANSI-compliant compiler can give an error when compiling such code". Just because it works now, doesn''t mean you should rely on it. Maybe some future compiler will optimise their symbol table in such a way that the leading underscore truly becomes reserved, and then your code will need fixing.

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