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Fabio Varesano
Fabio Varesano

Reputation: 457

Conditional compilation from .h and .cpp

I'm trying to make a library file. The .cpp file has some conditional compiled lines. The code can be found at:

HMC58X3.h http://sprunge.us/hEYW

HMC58X3.cpp http://sprunge.us/faRN

HMC58X3_raw.pde http://sprunge.us/BFVj

Basically, in the Arduino sketch file HMC58X3_raw.pde I define ISHMC5843 and in both HMC58X3.cpp and HMC58X3.h I do have different code to be compiled depending if that flag has been enabled.

The conditional compilation seems to work for HMC58X3.h while it doesn't for HMC58X3.cpp. It always looks as if ISHMC5843 hasn't been defined. How can it be made to work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 602

Answers (3)

Clifford
Clifford

Reputation: 93476

I cannot see how ISHMC58431 is defined in either HMC58X3.h or HMC58X3.cpp.

The definition has to be visible to the preprocessor when the file is pre-processed. This is normally done by #include'ing a common file that includes the #define in all files that need visibility of the macro, or by defining the macro on the compiler command line, such as -DISHMC58431 for example (compiler dependent).

This would of course require that the .pde file is also processed by the pre-processor, which since it has #include statements, I assume that it is.

Upvotes: 0

Rune Aamodt
Rune Aamodt

Reputation: 2611

When you compile HMC58X3.cpp the compiler hasn't seen the macro definitions in HMC58X3_raw.pde. IMO, you're better of using a global boolean constant variable to achieve what you're trying to do here.

Upvotes: 0

Ben Jackson
Ben Jackson

Reputation: 93760

A #define is not like a global variable. It's a pre-processor macro that only applies to the remaining text of that compile unit. There are a couple ways to do what you want:

  1. Create a config.h with #define ISHMC5843 and be sure to include it everywhere (and before any other includes that reference it).
  2. In your Makefile (probably inaccessible to you in Arduino) ensure -DISHMC5843 appears on every compile line, typically by including it in CFLAGS. (The details of how to ensure CFLAGS is part of your compile rule is way beyond the scope of this question).

Upvotes: 4

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