[libhid-discuss] Problem compiling C++ programs with libhid

[Christopher]

I'm having a problem using the headers from libhid, specifically hid.h. 
If I use it in a .c file it compiles fine, but if I rename the file to 
.cpp I get a bunch of errors. This is the testcase I made:
#include <hid.h>

int main()
{
HIDInterfaceMatcher broken;
return 0;
}

Naming the file "brokenhid.c" and compiling using "gcc brokenhid.c" 
works fine, but "g++ brokenhid.c" gives the following errors:

"In file included from brokenhid.c:1:
/usr/include/hid.h:72: error: typedef ‘_Bool’ is initialized (use 
__typeof__ instead)
/usr/include/hid.h:72: error: ‘matcher_fn_t’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/hid.h:79: error: ‘matcher_fn_t’ does not name a type
/usr/include/hid.h:124: error: ‘_Bool’ does not name a type
/usr/include/hid.h:133: error: ‘_Bool’ does not name a type"

Naming the file "brokenhid.cpp" and compiling with either gcc or g++ 
causes the same errors. My first thought was to wrap the #include in 
'extern "C"', but that had no effect.
Anyone know what's wrong? I'm new to programming for Linux (recently 
migrated from Windows)