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linking of .c and .h files

Jan 22nd, 2009

hi i m mohan sahu.i m using turbo c( borland compiler) and working with windows xp. i have one header file say myheader.h having only declarations of all functions and one myfunc.c file having only definitions of all function without main and i m including header file with #include "myheader.h" in this program.when i m using this header file in other program say func.c where i m including header by #include "myheader.h" but compiler is showing the error "unable to include myheader.h" .can anyone suggest me how to compile and link these files so that it will work properly.

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Re: linking of .c and .h files

Jan 22nd, 2009

One possible reason can be that 'func.c' is not in the same directory/folder as 'myheader.h' and if this is the case then either you can put the 'myheader.h' in the same directory/folder as 'func.c'

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You can put the 'myheader.h' in some standard path where your turbo c compiler searches for standard .h files(but in this case you have to change the line from

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#include "myheader.h"

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#include <myheader.h>

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Re: linking of .c and .h files

Jan 23rd, 2009

I have a small example how linking is to be done.
Suppose i have two program named imp.c and imp1.c
imp.c contains

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void arr()
{
printf("hello ajay");
}
void arr()
{
printf("hello ajay");
}

imp1.c contains

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void art()
{
printf("My name is ajay");
 
}
void art()
{
printf("My name is ajay");

}

then linking of above two programs with the program imp3.c
is done as

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<g:\tc\bin\imp.cpp>
#include<g:\tc\bin\imp1.cpp>
int main(void)
{
clrscr();
printf("this is the imp one:");
art();
arr();
return(0);
}
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<g:\tc\bin\imp.cpp>
#include<g:\tc\bin\imp1.cpp>
int main(void)
{
clrscr();
printf("this is the imp one:");
art();
arr();
return(0);
}