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no extern "C" into ocaml C-stub headers #5467

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vicuna opened this issue Jan 6, 2012 · 2 comments
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no extern "C" into ocaml C-stub headers #5467

vicuna opened this issue Jan 6, 2012 · 2 comments

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vicuna commented Jan 6, 2012

Original bug ID: 5467
Reporter: testcocoon
Assigned to: meyer
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2013-08-31T10:44:10Z)
Resolution: duplicate
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Platform: Godi
OS: Linux
Version: 3.12.1
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Duplicate of: #4963

Bug description

When creating a binding to C++ code it is necessary to compile against a C++ compiler (ex g++).
in this case using caml_copy_string() function produces a linker issue:
llvmex_ocaml.o: In function llvmex_get_as_string': llvmex_ocaml.c:(.text+0x127): undefined reference to caml_copy_string(char const*)'

The problem is due to the fact that caml_copy_string is seen as C++ symbol (not as C symbol).
To correct the issue it is necessary to put extern "C" around the ocaml headers:
extern "C" {
#include "caml/alloc.h"
#include "caml/custom.h"
#include "caml/memory.h"
#include "caml/fail.h"
#include "caml/callback.h"
}

In my opinion this should not be the case. It would be better that the headers starts with:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

and ends with:
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

To enable the possibility to use it in C and C++.

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vicuna commented Jan 6, 2012

Comment author: meyer

Sorry a bit tired today, I thought i changed to resolve by mistake, now I see it's a dupe

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vicuna commented Jan 6, 2012

Comment author: @protz

No worries!

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