could not determine kind of name for C.free

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I am trying to use C.free in my Golang application. My code is as follows:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "unsafe"
)

// #include <stdlib.h>

import (
    "C"
)


//export FreeMemory
func FreeMemory(pointer *int64) {
    C.free(unsafe.Pointer(pointer))
}

I have done some searching and I understand the error was because I don't have stdlib.h included, but I do.

This is my build command: go build --buildmode=c-shared -o main.dll. The error I get after building is: could not determine kind of name for C.free

My OS is Windows 10

Thanks

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1 Answers

If the import of "C" is immediately preceded by a comment, that comment, called the preamble, is used as a header when compiling the C parts of the package. For example:

// #include <stdio.h> 
// #include <errno.h> 
import "C"

package main

import "unsafe"

// #include <stdlib.h>
import "C"

//export FreeMemory
func FreeMemory(pointer *int64) {
    C.free(unsafe.Pointer(pointer))
}

func main() {}
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