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Top Forums Programming Calling c program from another c program Post 302491261 by jisha on Thursday 27th of January 2011 04:59:43 AM
Old 01-27-2011
CPU & Memory Calling c program from another c program

Hi All,

Probably this is a repeated question. My knowledge in this is limited and i got confused on all those materials i got in google search.
We use #include <> to include a predefined library like stdio.h
i saw somewhere that #include "" includes a man made module(another C program). IS this possible?

Let me make this simple
I have two files, say parent.c and child.c
child.c contains function definitions which is called from parent.c

My code:
parent.c
Code:
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
        int ret_option;
        ret_option = menu();
        return 0;
}

child.c

Code:
#include<stdio.h>
int menu();
int menu()
{

        int option;
        printf("\tWelcome to Address Search Engine\n");
        printf("-----------------------------------------\n");
        printf("1. Add\n2. Edit\n3. Delete\n4. Search\n0 for exit\n");
        printf("Enter your Selection : ");
        scanf("%d",&option);
        return (option);
}

What i need to do here is just display the menu on the screen.

Now how do I call this or include or link the two files ?


Thanks in advance
JS
 

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