Thread: Confusion using More than 1 file

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    Confusion using More than 1 file

    Main file named main.ccp
    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    #include <ctype.h>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        char choice;
        printf("\n");
        Sleep(100);    
        printf("\n");  
        Sleep(100);
        printf("\n");   
        Sleep(100);
        printf("\t\t\t       By Me\n");
        Sleep(100);
        printf("\n");
        Sleep(100);    
        putchar('\n');   
        Sleep(100);
        printf("\t\t\t        [N]ew Game\n");
        printf("\t\t\t        [Q]uit\n");
        Sleep(100);
        printf("\n");
        Sleep(100);
        printf("\n");
        choice=toupper(getch());
        for(;;)
        {
           if(choice=='N')
           {
               game();
               break;       
           }
           if(choice=='Q')
           {
              break;
           }    
        }
        return 0;
    }
    Begining of game file named game.ccp
    Code:
    //----------------------------------------Include Files-----------------------//
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    #include <ctype.h>
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <iostream>
    using namespace std;
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------//
    //-----------------------------------//--------------------------------------//
    int game()
    {
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------//
    //----------------------------------Random Variables--------------------------//
    int gold = 0;                  //Gold.
    char choice;                   //Choices in game A,F,R,E.
    int inumb;                     //Input number in gmae
    int GetRand(int min, int max); //Random number gen.
    int x;              //Counter for size of sentence.  
    int size;           //Size of sentence.
    
    //Town 1 variable//
    int beeninbar=0;
    int beenintemple=0;
    int population=263;
    
    //Alments//
    int disease=0;
    int weak=0;
    These 2 files are connected by the dev project file but for some reason it says that game is undeclared when i go to compile this file and im not sure why

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    Because it is. You need a .h file for your game.cpp file that contains the prototypes of your functions included in the file.

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    Errrm well ive seen a game from this site that used the method im trying to use and i can still compile the file and i dont have header files for the peices and wat do u mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan the noob View Post
    Errrm well ive seen a game from this site that used the method im trying to use and i can still compile the file and i dont have header files for the peices and wat do u mean?
    Defining functions somewhere in the code and expecting the compiler to know where they are is no good.

    Your code is parsed from top to bottom. This means that all functions defined after main that are used in main will not be 'known' by the compiler until it finished parsing main. This is solved by prototyping them at the beginning of the code.

    The prototypes were probably somewhere else, if they weren't in some included header file.
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