a.h is not the file I could change. I am just using it from third party. Files in my project are b.h, c.h, and so forth. I forgot that all my .h files are enclosed within suitable #ifndef, #define, and #endif. And the question is how to have .o files of all b, c, and so forth files linked without having multiple definition linking error of everything from a, since everything from a is defined twice: 1 - in b.o (since b.h includes a.h) 2 - in main.o (since main.cpp includes b.h which includes a.h) On 11/8/05, Dima Sorkin <dima.sorkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/8/05, Djekic Dusan wrote: > > > > a.h > > int a( ) { }; > > > > Hi. > I have encountered this problem too. > Explicitly writing "inline int a() {}" instead > of your piece of code helped. > > Or , if "a" will be a big function (not intended for inlining), > you will have to > move it's definition into a.cpp, and in a.h there will be > only declaration. > > Regards, > Dima. >