Thread: Making library

I have designed a program which deals about stack and its functionalities...

Code:

Just an overview of the design of the code:

struct STACK{
       int value;
       struct STACK * next;
};

function defined are : insert,pop, etc..
main()
{
insert();
pop();
}

My questions are :

1) I have to make this stack implementation, as a library.But how do i modify the code to facilitate my requirement ?... If this was c++, i would have had a class and member functions.


So if i create an instance of a class STACK ,then i could perform insert(),pop() etc ....as they are the member functions of the class.

But how do i bring the same concept in pure c. How do i change the structure of the program to make it ass a library so that it could be used optimally .



2)how to create a library from such .c file and link it to the main .c file.

googled results landed me on the makefile.But could not understand it properly.Can i have a clear explanation.It would be reallly really helpfull.

For gcc.An Introduction to GCC - Creating a library with the GNU archiver
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