C to C++

So far I've:
Installed build essentials
Forked a Git repository
Git cloned it
Compiled it - failed: no zlib
Installed zlib
Compiled it - success
Started it - failed: wrong shell scripting language, should be bash
Amended startup - crash course in bash and csh!
Start it - success
Mushclient connect to it as Admin - success
In a room, no exits. What? Perhaps I need to search? Nope
Wheres the friendly admin manual? No, there isn't one.
Search Gammon Forum - loads of commands: goto <vnum>
Just need vnum of areas - found
Goto areas - woo hoo!

Now what?
I know: I'll convert it very, very slowly to C++, because although have dabbled with C I've no experience of C++, so I'll get to learn the language!

Renamed .? to .?pp
Amended Makefile - something else to crash learn, sigh
Compiled it again - success
Start it - success
Mushclient connect to it as Admin - success

Now I want to change standard .h (eg stdio.h) to C++ equivalents (drop the .h affix a c), but for those .h without a C++ equivalent I need to surround it with extern "C" { ... }.

So my question is, are the .h required for telnet already C++ compliant or do I need to wrap them? If they are please let me know what gives it away so that I can check zlib myself without hassling you.

Thank you in advance.

Update:

Installed zlib.h has the extern "C" { ... } wrapping when compiled using C++ - nice

Anyone got any information about the telnet headers?

Try it and see, is my advice. Quite possibly they have it in them.



This will be a big job. I'm not saying it can't be done, but a lot of work for fairly little return. You can always convert the files to .cpp and still use the standard IO.

No you won't. C++ is almost a superset of C (not exactly, but that's another conversation). So almost all C code will compile just fine as C++ with very minor changes. So converting a large amount of working C to C++, even if you can actually get through all of it, will teach you next to nothing important about C++. Working knowledge of templates, class inheritence, constructors/destructors, etc are not things you can pick up from doing a conversion from C to C++, because they won't be necessary to get the code working because the code will work without them.

I shall.


I'll try it out with one of the source files and make a decision as to carry on or not.


Now wish I hadn't said that - so naive of me.