On 31 August 2010 18:39, Patrik Jonsson <c...@familjenjonsson.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm have a C MPI code that I need to link into my C++ code. As usual,
> from my C++ code, I do
>
> extern "C" {
> #include "c-code.h"
> }
>
#include <mpi.h>
extern "C" {
#include "c-code.h"
}
Would that be enough?
> where c-code.h includes, among other things, mpi.h.
>
> This doesn't work, because it appears mpi.h tries to detect whether
> it's being compiled as C or C++ and includes mpicxx.h if the language
> is C++. The problem is that that doesn't work in C linkage, so the
> compilation dies with errors like:
>
> mpic++ -I. -I$HOME/include/libPJutil -I$HOME/code/arepo -m32
> arepotest.cc -I$HOME/include -I/sw/include -L/sw/lib
> -L$HOME/code/arepo -larepo -lhdf5 -lgsl -lgmp -lmpi
> In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/map:65,
> from /sw/include/openmpi/ompi/mpi/cxx/mpicxx.h:36,
> from /sw/include/mpi.h:1886,
> from /Users/patrik/code/arepo/allvars.h:23,
> from /Users/patrik/code/arepo/proto.h:2,
> from arepo_grid.h:36,
> from arepotest.cc:3:
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:134: error: template with C linkage
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:145: error: declaration of C
> function 'const std::_Rb_tree_node_base* std::_Rb_tree_increment(const
> std::_Rb_tree_node_base*)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:142: error: previous
> declaration 'std::_Rb_tree_node_base*
> std::_Rb_tree_increment(std::_Rb_tree_node_base*)' here
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:151: error: declaration of C
> function 'const std::_Rb_tree_node_base* std::_Rb_tree_decrement(const
> std::_Rb_tree_node_base*)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:148: error: previous
> declaration 'std::_Rb_tree_node_base*
> std::_Rb_tree_decrement(std::_Rb_tree_node_base*)' here
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:153: error: template with C linkage
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:223: error: template with C linkage
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:298: error: template with C linkage
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:304: error: template with C linkage
> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_tree.h:329: error: template with C linkage
> etc. etc.
>
> It seems a bit presumptuous of mpi.h to just include mpicxx.h just
> because __cplusplus is defined, since that makes it impossible to link
> C MPI code from C++.
>
> I've had to resort to something like
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> #undef __cplusplus
> #include <mpi.h>
> #define __cplusplus
> #else
> #include <mpi.h>
> #endif
>
> in c-code.h, which seems to work but isn't exactly smooth. Is there
> another way around this, or has linking C MPI code with C++ never come
> up before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /Patrik Jonsson
>
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