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authorDon-Duong Quach <geekrelief@gmail.com>2022-07-17 00:32:33 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-07-17 09:32:33 +0200
commitefdcc0016913918eb303f5c34ae805b94f270a1a (patch)
treee00194eabb5c7a646e7d9ddb11d060aef1b4e65c
parent01ad0cdc5212a05ac31c968facdc94b732dd48ef (diff)
downloadNim-efdcc0016913918eb303f5c34ae805b94f270a1a.tar.gz
Fixed errors in Nim Backend integration docs. (#20046)
Fixed errors in Nim Backend integration.
Section "Nim invocation example from C"
NimMain needs a declaration and function declarations have external
linkage by default.
Also with the order of arguments to gcc with a static lib,
maths.c needs to come before the static lib.
-rw-r--r--doc/backends.md5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/backends.md b/doc/backends.md
index a135e78b0..8d49af119 100644
--- a/doc/backends.md
+++ b/doc/backends.md
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ Create a ``maths.c`` file with the following content:
 
   #include <stdio.h>
 
-  extern int fib(int a);
+  int fib(int a);
+  void NimMain();
 
   int main(void)
   {
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ also ask the Nim compiler to generate a statically linked library:
 .. code:: cmd
 
   nim c --app:staticLib --noMain fib.nim
-  gcc -o m -Inimcache -Ipath/to/nim/lib libfib.nim.a maths.c
+  gcc -o m -Inimcache -Ipath/to/nim/lib maths.c libfib.nim.a
 
 The Nim compiler will handle linking the source files generated in the
 ``nimcache`` directory into the ``libfib.nim.a`` static library, which you can