C library naming conventions

Question

Introduction

Hello folks, I recently learned to program in C! (This was a huge step for me, since C++ was the first language, I had contact with and scared me off for

Answer 1

Prefixes are only choice on C level.

On some platforms (that support separate namespaces for linkers, like Windows, OS X and some commercial unices, but not Linux and FreeBSD) you can workaround conflicts by stuffing code in a library, and only export the symbols from the library you really need. (and e.g. aliasing in the importlib in case there are conflicts in exported symbols)