how to create a library

[Naresh Nijran]

I need general details on how to set-up my function in a header file so that it could be called from anybodys program just by '# include <myheader.h>.
example:
Function name: myfunction(char cookie)

Myprogram.c:
{
#include <myheader.h>

cookie = myfunction(char cookie);
}

I'm fairly new to setting up header file to include my own function and I would appreciate some detailed informaton on how to go about setting it up.
I'm using c++ compiler and I can't see any help file associated with header or library files.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Naresh Nijran

[SourceCode]

I had this same question recently, here is a really really good explanation of how to organize the contents of your library. There are other ways to do it but I thought that was pretty neat.

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...threadid=38189


Btw the < > around the library name means that the compiler will look in the spot where your system header files are located, i think thats usually a few different places. The " " around the name means that it will look in the cwd first then the system header file location. I had a really good link to a howto for linux on how to make all kinds of libraries but I can't find it heh. Goodluck.