Linking C from C++ in OS X Mavericks

Question

Having transitioned to OS X Mavericks and XCode 5.0.1, I can no longer gracefully link compiled C files (output from gcc) to a C++ project (output from g++).

The off

Answer 1

Most probably you are a victim of Name mangling. To avoid name mangling in C++, use extern "C" around declarations, like:

#ifdef __cplusplus 
extern "C" {
#endif
    void load_dmat(char const*);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif