[someuser77]

hello, i am using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition.
i made a new project and added my files to it, i have 3 .c files:
2 of them are files with functions, and another one that calls the other two.
when i compile (Ctrl+F7) the file i dont get any errors but when i build (F7) the project i get LNK2005 error:

error LNK2005: _drawMySquare already defined in DRAWOBJ.OBJ

drawMySquare if a function included in DRAWOBJ.C
under Code Generation i use Multithreaded DLL/Debug Multithreaded DLL
i use:

#include "DRAWOBJ.C"

to add the .c file.

[GCDude]

ok this isnt how u should be setting up your project really. as you have it now the linker is going thru drawobj.c twice, hence the error. You can resolve this in a number of ways depending on how u have your project setup (recreate project correctly/in c++/use #if !defined), post a little example with the 3 files that still produces this error, and ill give u an idea of what you should really be doing. hopefully

[someuser77]

i made a drawobj.h file with the functions titles from drawobj.c, included only the .h file and it looks okay.
thanks GCDude!

[AGCurry]

Yes. Executable code should not #included; rather, it should be linked.

[someuser77]

i guess i can mark this thread as solved, right?

[GCDude]

yep