C++ undefined reference to defined function

Though previous posters covered your particular error, you can get 'Undefined reference' linker errors when attempting to compile C code with g++, if you don't tell the compiler to use C linkage.

For example you should do this in your C header files:

extern "C" {

...

void myfunc(int param);

...

}

To make 'myfunc' available in C++ programs.

If you still also want to use this from C, wrap the extern "C" { and } in #ifdef __cplusplus preprocessor conditionals, like

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

This way, the extern block will just be “skipped” when using a C compiler.

The declaration and definition of insertLike are different

In your header file:

void insertLike(const char sentence[], const int lengthTo, const int length, const char writeTo[]);

In your 'function file':

void insertLike(const char sentence[], const int lengthTo, const int length,char writeTo[]);

C++ allows function overloading, where you can have multiple functions/methods with the same name, as long as they have different arguments. The argument types are part of the function's signature.

In this case, insertLike which takes const char* as its fourth parameter and insertLike which takes char * as its fourth parameter are different functions.

You need to compile and link all your source files together:

g++ main.c function_file.c