We have a third party application coded in C++ which has hook for a
function that I need to implement. Is there a way such that I can
implement it in C and give my code as a library. I cannot use the
'extern C' since the application is built without my header file.

Example:

ThirdParty.cpp

extern void fun2();
fun1(){
....

fun2();

}



My code is supposed to implement fun2() in C.

sumaniitb@gmail.com wrote:

> We have a third party application coded in C++ which has hook for a
> function that I need to implement. Is there a way such that I can
> implement it in C and give my code as a library. I cannot use the
> 'extern C' since the application is built without my header file.
>
> Example:
>
> ThirdParty.cpp
>
> extern void fun2();
> fun1(){
> ...
>
> fun2();
>
> }
>
> My code is supposed to implement fun2() in C.

Because when ThirdParty.cpp code is compiled it will see it as a C++
function declaration, it will want to call a C++ function so no, you can't
compile fun2 in C (you can implement it in the C subset of C++ if you wish
but I assume you mean compile it with a C compiler). The only thing I can
think of is to have a translation layer, a fun2 in C++ that will call the
actual fun2 implementation from C code.

Something like:
translation.cpp

extern "C" void fun2_real();

void fun2()
{
fun2_real();
}

ccode.c

void fun2_real() { ... }

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