C++ debugging help needed
Thanks Dirk, Martyn and Romain. I'm planning to do a temporary workaround release with the Shape class renamed to rglShape, but over the longer term I'll put everything that's supposed to be local inside an rgl namespace. First I need to learn how namespaces interact with extern "C" declarations; pointers to any readable tutorials would be appreciated. Duncan Murdoch
On 02/10/2013 11:52 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 2 October 2013 at 15:45, Martyn Plummer wrote:
| In C++, everything goes in the global namespace unless the programmer
| explicitly creates one. So when you dynamically load two dynamic shared
| libraries with a "Shape" object they clash.
|
| The solution here is to put
|
| namespace rgl {
| ...
| }
|
| around your class definitions in the rglm package, and
|
| using rgl::Shape
Exactly.
| at the top of any source file that refers to rgl Shape. Likewise, the
| igraph package should declare shape in the "igraph" namespace.
And as I wrote to Duncan off-list, igraph doesn't, even though it otherwise
uses an igraph namespace:
/** Shape.h
*/
#ifndef SHAPE_H
#define SHAPE_H
#include <string>
#include "Color.h"
#include "Ray.h"
#include "Point.h"
class Shape
[....]
So the clash is due to two packages simulatenously failing to make use of
namespaces.
And at that point the linker appears to pick in search (link ?) order.
Dirk