Create and use a library

[Gattaca]

Hello,

1. How can I create a personnal library (with my own functions) ?
2. How can I use it ?
I know that in my source code I will have something like
#include "mylib.h"

But how to make a link between mylib.h and the library compiled ?

Thanks

Note that I read the FAQ first. I didn't find answer to my questions.

 

[Case -]

Hello,

1. How can I create a personnal library (with my own functions) ?
2. How can I use it ?
I know that in my source code I will have something like
#include "mylib.h"

But how to make a link between mylib.h and the library compiled ?

a. Place all functions in a file with name "mylib.c".
b. Place all function declarations and other stuff (types,
macro's, #defined constants, ...) in the "mylib.h".
c. As you say, #include "mylib.n" in every source that
uses one or more of these library functions.
d. Compile "mylib.c", "source.c", ...
e. Link the object files into a program.

Step d. and e. can be done with one action/command for example:

cc source.c mylib.c -o myprog

This will invoke the linker as well. When you compile "source.c"
the compiler sees there are external functions (declared in "mylib.h")
and marks calls to them as unresolved. The linker makes a list
of all these unresolved externals and tries to find a match in
all object files it currently is processing. When there's a
match it fill in the right 'address' for each external.

HTH

 

[Gattaca]

Gattaca a écrit :
Sorry but I assume I was not clear enought.
When I said I wanted to create a personnal library It was rather
-> How can I create a personnal compiled library (not a C file)?
In order to keep my source code secret and to do "a public interface"
with a "mylib.h" header file.

Thanks

 

[Andrew]

Gattaca a écrit :
Sorry but I assume I was not clear enought.
When I said I wanted to create a personnal library It was rather
-> How can I create a personnal compiled library (not a C file)?
In order to keep my source code secret and to do "a public interface"
with a "mylib.h" header file.

[snip]

You would be better off asking this question in a vendor-specific
group, as Standard C has no concept of a "personnal library".

To point you in the right direction, you need to check your
implementation's documentation on its library manager (for MSVC this
is "lib.exe", for GNU C this is "ar"). You use the library manager to
collect all the object files generated from your TU's into one big
file. To use it, you need to let your linker know that it can check
out said library for otherwise unresolved references. Again, this is
implementation specific, and is entirely off-topic here.