Re: Gnucash c++

2014-08-13 Thread Gour
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:04:00 -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Hello all, What is the motivation for compiling everything as C++ if it's still really C and you have to wrap everything in extern C {} to get it to link, especially in gnome and register directories, which can't be

Re: Gnucash c++

2014-08-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:04:00 -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Hello all, What is the motivation for compiling everything as C++ if it's still really C and you have to wrap everything in extern C {} to get it to link, especially in gnome and register

Re: Gnucash c++

2014-08-13 Thread Gour
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:21:59 -0400 Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Ummm.. No. OK. The benefit of C - C++ is that except for a few minor issues with keywords you can *generally* compile C code using the C++ compiler and it will *just work*. That's clear. The same cannot be said for

Re: Gnucash c++

2014-08-13 Thread John Ralls
On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:21:59 -0400 Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Ummm.. No. OK. The benefit of C - C++ is that except for a few minor issues with keywords you can *generally* compile C code using the C++ compiler and