lwip and C++ compilation/linking issue

[Stark, Josef]

Hello,

I want to use TCP/IP (and therefore ankh and lwip) inside a C++ application. The unmodified lwip example (src/l4/pkg/ankh/examples/lwip) compiles fine (and also works without DHCP and with a little tweaking), but it is written and configured as C and not C++.
So if I change the filename of main.c to main.cc and the Makefile accordingly, unfortunately it doesn't compile. Following error:

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  ... Compiling main.o
In file included from /home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/contrib/lwip/contrib/src/include/lwip/arch.h:46:0,
                 from /home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/contrib/lwip/contrib/src/include/lwip/debug.h:35,
                 from /home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/contrib/lwip/contrib/src/include/lwip/opt.h:46,
                 from /home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/contrib/lwip/contrib/src/include/lwip/tcpip.h:35,
                 from /home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/l4/ankh/lwip-ankh.h:3,
                 from /home/josef/Desktop/test/main.cc:10:
/home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/contrib/lwip/arch/cc.h:48:13: error: previous declaration of ‘int* __h_errno_location()’ with ‘C++’ linkage
 extern int *__h_errno_location (void) __THROW __attribute__ ((__const__));
             ^
In file included from /home/josef/Desktop/test/main.cc:19:0:
/home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/include/uclibc/netdb.h:61:73: error: conflicts with new declaration with ‘C’ linkage
 extern int *__h_errno_location (void) __THROW __attribute__ ((__const__));
                                                                         ^
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make: *** [/home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/ext-pkg/home/josef/Desktop/test/OBJ-x86_586-l4f] Error 2
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Alright, so I tried surrounding the offending include with 'extern "C" ' (as well as moving it above #include <l4/ankh/lwip-ankh.h> since this file also includes it):
extern "C" {
#include "arch/cc.h"
}

I think that it solved the problem, because the error went away, but another error appeared (see below), so I also tried doing the same only to the offending line inside arch/cc.h instead:
extern "C" {
extern int *__h_errno_location (void) __THROW __attribute__ ((__const__));
}

Both approaches led to the same linker error:

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main.o: In function `main':
main.cc:(.text.startup+0x11c): undefined reference to `ankhif_init(netif*)'
make[1]: *** [test] Error 1
make: *** [/home/josef/Desktop/l4re-snapshot-2014053111/obj/l4/x86/ext-pkg/home/josef/Desktop/test/OBJ-x86_586-l4f] Error 2
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This is the Makefile (only the line SRC_CC is different to the original example Makefile)

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PKGDIR	?= .
L4DIR	?= $(PKGDIR)/../l4re-snapshot-2014053111/src/l4

TARGET           = test
SRC_CC           = main.cc
SYSTEMS          = x86-l4f arm-l4f
REQUIRES_LIBS    = lwip libc_be_socket_lwip liblwip_netif_ankh libc_support_misc


include $(L4DIR)/mk/prog.mk
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Which library is missing here, or what else could be going wrong?


Cheers,
Josef