How to exlude some CPP from being linked?

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Hello everyone:

I'm working with Visual Studio 2008, and I have multiple CPP files in
the project. I'd like to compile these files, but not to link them,
because they are all MATLAB interface functions with the same function
names. Linking these functions cause the linker to complain, which is
not a big problem. However, I still want to fix it. Is there any way
to tell the linker to avoid certain object files?

Thanks

Posted 31-Jan-10 14:57pm

smartnose

Add a Solution

3 solutions

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2010-02-01T01:28:00

Solution 1

Why not just exclude the extra modules from the project? I cannot see any need to compile a module if you do not link it in.

Posted 1-Feb-10 1:28am

Richard MacCutchan

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2010-02-01T02:16:00

You could add namespaces to avoid the function name collisions.

Of course, If you KNOW there will collisions, why don't you name them something like "MATLAB_xxxx"? This way, the compiler will simply not link them if they're not used.

You could also put the functions into a lib, and simply not link to it when you don't need it.

smartnose · Answer 3 · 2010-02-01T03:21:00

Thanks for replying to me folks.

I should have explained better: the reason I want to include files that I don't need to link is because I want to use Visual Studio for my MATLAB projects. Visual Studio provides much more powerful editing functions than MATLAB editor, so I usually use Visual Studio to edit and compile, then test it using MATLAB. Because MATLAB has a fixed name for its interface function, so whenever I create two interface functions, Visual Studio will complain about the duplication of names.

I'll try the name-space approach or, maybe I need a method to turn off the entire linking process.

How to exlude some CPP from being linked?

3 solutions

Solution 1

Solution 2

Solution 3

Add your solution here

Preview 0