Hello everyone. I have a watch code working with arduino. However, the code is written in C. When I want to add a code written in C ++, Arduino IDE gives an error. What are your suggestions?
Hello everyone. I have a watch code working with arduino. However, the code is written in C. When I want to add a code written in C ++, Arduino IDE gives an error. What are your suggestions?
A few options come to mind:
- Convert the C++ code that you apparently found to C.
- Convert the C watch code that you wrote to C++ (if you're lucky it might already be valid C++)
- Write a C interface to the C++ code. This could mean using the pimpl/opaque pointer idiom with extern "C" so you can call the C interface from your own code, oblivious to the fact that the actual implementation is in C++.
Generally, it is easier to use a C library from C++ code than vice versa since C is somewhat a subset of C++.
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Yes, you can call C from C++ because there is the "extern C" mechanism. You can't call C++ from C, with the exception of C++ functions marked "extern C". So usually the best thing to do is to write "extern C" wrappers for the C++, then call from C.
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But the code has a lot of classes, structers, datastructers and members. It's so difficult.
This should not be a problem on an Arduino, as it is not purely C: It implements parts of C++.
What code are you trying to run?
What error codes are you getting?
Fact - Beethoven wrote his first symphony in C
