MVC question!

you can have as many files as you want, but just one main or WinMain function for program, its just a matter of putting all your prototypes and defines in header files (.h,.hpp) as many as you want, and implement those functions in code files (.c,.cpp) of course make sure you #include the necesary headers on your code files. then link all your object (.o,.obj) files together.

There is no "main executable". Where ever the main function is is where the entry point is. An example:

/* MyFile.c */ #include "Other.h" int main(void) { TheOtherFunction(); return 0; } /* Other.h */ #ifndef INCLUDED_OTHER_H #define INCLUDED_OTHER_H extern void TheOtherFunction(void); #endif /* Other.cpp */ #include <stdio.h> void TheOtherFunction(void) { printf("Fish!\n"); }

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Each time you build your project, there are actually 3 things happening:

- preprocessing
- compiling
- linking

First, the preprocessor looks at your cpp files for things like:


#define CONSTANT 1


If anywhere in your code you use CONSTANT, it gets replaced by 1.


#include "header.h"


...is something similar, the entire contents of the file 'header.h' is copied to the location of the include statement. Note that a header usually doesn't contain any function definitions, it just declares functions that are defined in some other cpp file, like forward declarations.

After the preprocessor is done, the compiler steps in. The compiler takes all your cpp files and translates them into machine code, it creates an .obj file, an object file, for every cpp file you have. The preprocessor copied all the headers into the right places, so even though you use function X() from one cpp file in another cpp file, the compiler won't complain because it knows that X() will exist at some other place.

So you end up with a bunch of machine code in several different object files. The linker takes all the object files and combines them into one executable.

The compiler knows which function is to be called when your program is started because it has a predefined name, usually main().


For header/source file organization take a look at Null and Voids example, the #ifndef/#define/#endif is needed to prevent the header contents from being included twice.

Edited by - kvh on December 30, 2001 7:32:10 PM

Since noone else mentioned it : What you are referring to is called MFC(for Microsoft Foundation Classes). The acronym MVC usually refers to Model-View-Controller, which is a commonly used design pattern.

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Original post by Arild Fines
Since noone else mentioned it : What you are referring to is called MFC(for Microsoft Foundation Classes). The acronym MVC usually refers to Model-View-Controller, which is a commonly used design pattern.

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Actually, I thought he was refering to MSVC (for Microsoft Visual C++) but with Microsoft collapsed into a single M. Either way, he has his answer now.

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Thanks! Yeah I meant the MSVC! =D

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