Thread: How to build multiple C files in VS code

Hi guys,

I try to compile a program with a main.c, file.c and file.h files
The file.c and file.h are in another directory than the main.c
I included the file.h in both main.c and file.c





When I compile the program I get the the undefined reference error of myName(); that is declared in file.h and defined in file.c



I followed the suggestion in VS Code documentation to edit the tasks.json but it didn't work. I tried both the .cpp and c extension in the tasks.json. Now the file is like this:



If I build the files from the terminal gcc main.c Library/file.c it works fine

I do not know what else I am missing. Any suggestion?

It works better if you invoke make to read a makefile.

You can see in the OUTPUT that it's still just running gcc main.c -o main
(I don't know what the d:\Programs\Dropbox\... stuff is about.)
Maybe you need to tell it somewhere to use that json file.

BTW, in your modifications the *.c should probably just be main.c and the line with file.h shouldn't be there at all (you never need to specify header files to the compiler).
These changes won't make a difference, though.