Re: g++ not working for postgresql extension languages?

Thanks All,

It is now solved by using the "extern "C" {....} directive.

Thanks for all of the help..

Cheers :)

Lonnie
--- Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie_cumberland@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All again,
> 
> One more thing that I have tried.
> 
> If I now do a similar thing as in my previous message with the "funcs.c"
> file,
> but this time with the "funcs.cc" file then I can get:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root@Treazurac /test]# g++ -I./include -I./backend -O2 -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I/usr/include/pgsql
> -I/usr/include
> -fpic -c -o funcs.o funcs.cc
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# g++ -shared -o funcs.so funcs.o
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# ls
> 
> Makefile  Makefile.global  Makefile.port  funcs.cc  funcs.o  funcs.so* 
> funcs.sql
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# pico -w funcs.sql
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# psql -f funcs.sql -d trdata
> DROP
> CREATE
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# psql trdata
> Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>  
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help on internal slash commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
>  
> trdata=# select concat_text('a','b');
> ERROR:  Can't find function concat_text in file /test/funcs.so
> trdata=#         
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> And although I should not be running as "root", this is a test machine and it
> is ok for the time being.
> 
> If I do the same thing as above, but using the "funcs.c" file (which is the
> exact same file just renamed)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> funcs.c and funcs.cc
> -------------------------
> #include "postgres.h"           // for variable length type
>  
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <time.h>
>  
> #include <unistd.h>             // for unix crypt function
>  
> text *
> concat_text(text *arg1, text *arg2);
>  
> text *
> concat_text(text *arg1, text *arg2)
> {
>     int32 new_text_size = VARSIZE(arg1) + VARSIZE(arg2) - VARHDRSZ;
>     text *new_text = (text *) malloc(new_text_size);
>  
>     memset((void *) new_text, 0, new_text_size);
>     VARSIZE(new_text) = new_text_size;
>     strncpy(VARDATA(new_text), VARDATA(arg1), VARSIZE(arg1)-VARHDRSZ);
>     strncat(VARDATA(new_text), VARDATA(arg2), VARSIZE(arg2)-VARHDRSZ);
>     return (new_text);
> }                                                            
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> with funcs.sql
> ------------------
> DROP FUNCTION concat_text(text, text);
> CREATE FUNCTION concat_text(text, text) RETURNS text
>      AS '/test/funcs.so' LANGUAGE 'c'; 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> With the "funcs.c" file in place I get:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root@Treazurac /test]# gcc -I./include -I./backend -O2 -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I/usr/include/pgsql
> -I/usr/include
> -fpic -c -o funcs.o funcs.c
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# gcc -shared -o funcs.so funcs.o
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# psql -f funcs.sql -d trdata
> DROP
> CREATE
> 
> [root@Treazurac /test]# psql trdata
> Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>  
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help on internal slash commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
>  
> trdata=# select concat_text('a','b');
>  concat_text
> -------------
>  ab
> (1 row)
>  
> trdata=#            
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> so now I do not understand why the "gcc" version works and the "g++" version
> does not?
> 
> Just a side note in that I can easliy compile c++ the examples in the
> interfaces/libpq++ directory without any problems so that this is very
> strange
> to me. 
>  
> I really need the "g++" version to work correctly as well?
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Cheers
> Lonnie
> 
> 
> 
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