Help making manipulable variable throught another file

Hello, I'm trying to make a file to configurate/manipulate variables of a C code.I tried using int and extern int throught a header or another C code but it doesn't seems to work (even throught the makefile). I also tried (with XML) to put a data structure to hold the shared variables with the XML_SetUserData function to pass a pointer to this structure to the handlers. Maybe i did something wrong, but i can't find where. Any help is welcome. Thanks.

Do you mean you want to manipulate variables between different programs?

Please post some code we can look at.

Yes it's right.

OK, you can't share data between separate instances of running programs, simply by declaring variables with the right name.

Just think of what would happen if it were true.
I declare
char *host;
in my program, and my browser stops working.

The easy and portable way of sharing data between program instances is to use a file.
One program writes to the file, and another reads from it.

Now there is such a thing as shared memory, but how to use it varies depending on which OS you're using.

So,here is code.h

Code:

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#ifndef _CODE_H#define _CODE_H#include #include #define X 1typedef unsigned char X_Bool;#define X_TRUE ((X_Bool) 1)#define X_FALSE ((X_Bool) 0)#define X_MODE ((X_Bool) 2)#endif

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then conf.c

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int M;M = 2;

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and then code.c

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#include #include "code.h"extern int X;extern int M;int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {while (1) {printf("\n%s\n", M);printf("\n%s\n", X);printf("\n%s\n", X_MODE);}

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and then the compile (gcc code.c conf.c -o decode `pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10)I want to change variable throught code.h or conf.c for code.c but it fail. It seems to ignore it with no errors.

Sorry, i can't edit post i don't know why, so i'll write the code again for a better view..h

Code:

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#ifndef _CODE_H  #define _CODE_H  #include  #include  #define X 1 typedef unsigned char X_Bool; #define X_TRUE ((X_Bool) 1) #define X_FALSE ((X_Bool) 0) #define X_MODE ((X_Bool) 2) #endif

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.c

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#include  #include  #include "code.h" extern int X; extern int M; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {while (1)    {        printf("\n%s\n", M);        printf("\n%s\n", X);        printf("\n%s\n", X_MODE);  } }

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um...try again!!!

Code:

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#ifndef _CODE_H 
#define _CODE_H 
#include
#include
#define X 1typedef
unsigned char X_Bool;
#define X_TRUE ((X_Bool) 1)
#define X_FALSE ((X_Bool) 0)
#define X_MODE ((X_Bool) 2)
#endif

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Code:

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#include
#include
#include "code.h"
extern int X;
extern int M;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
  while (1)   
  {       
    printf("\n%s\n", M);
    printf("\n%s\n", X);
    printf("\n%s\n", X_MODE);
  }
 }

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this is what i see when i fix it....

but you have 2 blank #include in both header and in code

Sorry for that. It's #include <stdio.h> and #include <stdlib.h>

> and then the compile (gcc code.c conf.c -o decode `pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10)I want to change variable throught code.h or conf.c for code.c but it fail
Are you suggesting that if you edit conf.c, that an existing running instance of 'decode' will magically change it's behaviour?

If you edit the code, then kill the program, recompile, and re-run it.

If you want to modify run-time behaviour, you need another approach.

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Originally Posted by weavel37

I tried using int and extern int throught a header or another C code but it doesn't seems to work (even throught the makefile)

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It sounds like what you're trying to do is to have a "conf" object file that is shared by two separate programs. Normally you define data only in the .c files, and in the .h file you declare it. The "user programs" of that module will then include its header file, like this:

myconf.h
myconf.c <-- includes myconf.h

user1.c <-- includes myconf.h
user2.c <-- includes myconf.h

Here is example code for a simple myconf object. You can put as much data in it as you want and it will only need to be recompiled when you change it.

myconf.h:

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#ifndef MYCONF_H
#define MYCONF_H
extern int CONF_DATA;
#endif

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myconf.c:

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#include "myconf.h"
int CONF_DATA = 12345;

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user1.c:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include "myconf.h"
int main(void)
{
    printf("Hi, this is user1\n");
    printf("CONF_DATA is %d\n", CONF_DATA);
    return 0;
}

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user2.c:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include "myconf.h"
int main(void)
{
    printf("Hi, this is user2\n");
    printf("CONF_DATA is %d\n", CONF_DATA);
    return 0;
}

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To produce the object `myconf.o' with gcc, use a command like

gcc -Wall -c myconf.c

Then to compile the user1 and user2:

gcc -Wall -o user1 user1.c myconf.o
gcc -wall -o user2 user2.c myconf.o

Usually the Makefile is configured to detect if you change myconf.c (or myconf.h) and automatically issue the first gcc command. Otherwise, only the files that were changed (user1 or user2) need to be re-run.

i am thinking what he needs to do, is to have a "data" file, that the program reads and writes to share data, because i dont think after every run, recompiling it would be a user based option...

Hello, so with the help of other people i did resolve the problem. I have tried a way to not make a lot of files, so I made a simple .cfg like this

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VARIABLE=VALUE
... /* etc... */
...

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and then i do this in the .c

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char buf[512], var[512], val[512];
FILE *fp=fopen("/path/to/configfile", "r");


setenv("VARIABLE", "VALUE"); // Set a default


while(fgets(buf, 512, fp) != NULL)
{
        if(sscanf(buf, "%[^=]=%s", var, val) != 2) continue;
        setenv(var, val);
}
fclose(fp);


g_strdup_printf ("%s", ,getenv("VARIABLE"));

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and then i have "VALUE" show on my screen. And it work ! So thanks all for helping/supporting me :).

Welcome to the forum, weavel! :cool: