[oexel]

Hi guys. I have been writing a iTunes visual plugin and after some hours of investigation realized that the reason iTunes is not recognising my plugin is because it is written in c++.

I took the sample plugin from the itunes sdk and put 1 line of c++ code into it and compiled. This newly compiled bundle failed to be recognised by iTunes. My question is what must I do in order to be able to write my plugin in c++ and still have itunes recognise it.

My second question is why does this happen. I believed that c code can call c++ code but it appears not. Can someone please clarify for me.

Thanx a mil

[smeger]

C++ "mangles" exported symbols differently from how C does it. Your symbols need to be exported using C's methodology.

In the header file that defines whatever functions iTunes needs to interface with, place the following before the function prototypes:

Code:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

At the end of the function prototypes, put

Code:
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

[oexel]

thank you so much smeger....that's what i thought but i had placed my extern "C"{ before the body of the function not before the prototype. Anyways, worx as expected now.