project wide variables in VS2008

[deepzero]

hi guys,

Here`s a little question that has been bugging me for quiet some time...: How can i declare a project wide variable?

Say, main.cpp holds the function int main(){...}.

In a second file, second.cpp, i have a second function: void second(){...}.

How can these two functions share a string/int/long/... variable?

thanx,

deep

p.s. to makes this clear, this is in no way related to windows environment variables (%tmp%, %%appdata%,...). That`s mostly what i got when using google... :S

Edited November 27, 2010 by deepzero

[Aguila]

main.cpp: int test;

second.cpp: extern int test;

[deepzero]

that seems to be it.

Funny, none of my books ever mentioned it.

thanks a lot, k11!

[ghandi]

I wanted to use a common header file which contained declarations of variables but including it in multiple .cpp files yielded duplicate declaration errors, is there a '#pragma' or 'IFDEF' which makes it so that the variables are declared only the once but the function prototypes and defines can still be used from the same file?

HR,

Ghandi

[Aguila]

you could try

/* function prototypes */

#ifndef MYHEADER

#define MYHEADER

/* variables */

#endif

Funny, none of my books ever mentioned it.

Probably because you don't need "extern" if you use the OO features of C++. With classes you don't have such problems...

[ghandi]

Thanks k11. I've tried that before so i must have done something else wrong which caused the compile errors, it seems that MSVC was compiling each .cpp file as a separate module and each module contained these symbols hence the duplicate errors.

HR,

Ghandi

Edited November 27, 2010 by ghandi

[CondZero]

Ghandi's method of using the extern is good for related project scope variables.

You can also setup a class in a *.h file

and use:

#pragma once

#include "myclass.h" in every *.h file in your project

remembering to use the #pragma directive where you reference more than once.

Then use something like the example below from your class where you need it:

CmyclassData *pData = new CmyclassData(myclassInfo, myclassmoreinfo);

CZ

Edited November 29, 2010 by CondZero