Header-files

Hi All And Sundry,
I want to have my C declarations only in a header file and include it in my program. I believe this has gotta do with the concept of pre-compiled headers but am very fuzzy .
Could you please help< It would be cool if specially u could tell me how to do it in Turbo C/C++ and not gcc but even if not id be grateful>.

Thx a lot for ur time.

This is what your file looks like before

Code:

// prog.c
#include <stdio.h>

int foo ( );
int bar ( char *msg );

int main ( ) {
    int a = foo();
    int b = bar( "hello " );
    printf( "%d %d\n", a, b );
    return 0;
}

int foo ( ) {
    return 0;
}
int bar ( char *msg ) {
    printf( "%s", msg );
    return 0;
}

And this is what it looks like when you've created funcs.c and funcs.h

Code:

// funcs.h
int foo ( );
int bar ( char *msg );

// prog.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "funcs.h"
int main ( ) {
    int a = foo();
    int b = bar( "hello " );
    printf( "%d %d\n", a, b );
    return 0;
}

// funcs.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "funcs.h"
int foo ( ) {
    return 0;
}
int bar ( char *msg ) {
    printf( "%s", msg );
    return 0;
}

You would compile this using say
bcc proc.c funcs.c

I do this with all my prototypes.
List them under the program file they originate from.
Then include the header in all files.

I use a conditional compilation to ensure that the files can be compiled individually but will only be included once in the build.

#ifndef APP_PROTOTYPES
#define APP_PROTOTYPES

int MyFunction(HWND,int,char *);

#endif

note that I do not include the name of the variable in the prototype.
I use MS DEVStudio but should work in other compliers.

> note that I do not include the name of the variable in the prototype.
But there's no good reason not to include the variable names in the prototypes.

It does help to document the function

void copy_string ( char*, char* );

or

void copy_string ( char *to, char *from );

Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me out .That was exactly what i wanted to know