flac dev - Sep 2004 - make headers C++ compatible?

Hello FLACers,

I'm working on implementing FLAC support for Audacity, a cross-platform
audio editor (audacity.sourceforge.net). We're experimenting with using
FLAC as the internal data representation.

Unfortunately, the FLAC headers cannot be used in C++ programs because of
the use of 'private' and 'protected' as variable names in
stream_decoder.h, stream_encoder.h, and file_decoder.h. These are of
course reserved words in C++.

Would it be possible to make these small changes for C++ compatibility?
It would also be nice if you would include:

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

at the beginning and one to match at the end, but this can always be done
by the host program.

Thanks, Joshua

-- 
Joshua Haberman  <joshua@haberman.com>

--- Joshua Haberman <jhaberman@ups.edu> wrote:
> Hello FLACers,
> 
> I'm working on implementing FLAC support for Audacity, a
> cross-platform
> audio editor (audacity.sourceforge.net). We're experimenting with
> using
> FLAC as the internal data representation.
ooh, cool.
> Unfortunately, the FLAC headers cannot be used in C++ programs
> because of
> the use of 'private' and 'protected' as variable names in
> stream_decoder.h, stream_encoder.h, and file_decoder.h. These are of
> course reserved words in C++.
ooh, not cool.  OK, this was bad planning on my part.  I
will fix this for the next release.  if you are linking to
a prebuilt libFLAC then all you have to do is rename the
'private' and 'protected' struct members to something else
in the three problem headers (include/FLAC/*coder.h).
> Would it be possible to make these small changes for C++
> compatibility?
> It would also be nice if you would include:
> 
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
> #endif
> 
> at the beginning and one to match at the end, but this can always be
> done
> by the host program.
sure, no prob.

Josh


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