'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)

I try to get rid of 900 lines of code in a main.cpp file.
For that I tried to set up some kind of project directory structure.
The first attempt is in:

But when creating xTaskCreatePinnedToCore() in this code I get an error:
‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)

#include <tasksConfig.h>
#include <createAllTasks.h>
#include <someUsefullName.h>
// #include <task_B.h>

void createAllTasks()
{
// All xTaskCreate… goes here and utilize the macros created
// in taskConfig.h

// Be very carefull about the ordening of tasks because they 
// start running as soon as they're created.

xTaskCreatePinnedToCore(
     someUsefullName,
     "Some Usefull Name",
     1024,
     NULL,      // 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
     1,
     NULL,      // handle
     1
);

}

Can/will someone please tell me what went wrong here?

NULL is a macro defined in stdlib.h.

Though this project seems to be a weird mixing of C and C++ files without extern "C" declarations, so linking will fail… Are you sure you don’t want to just write C++ directly and use the builtin nullptr?

Also I don’t think you should call vTaskStartScheduler like that

the Arduino-ESP32 framework will already do that for you. In fact, as you can see in the code, setup() and loop() already run in a FreeRTOS task called "loopTask"

If you vTaskDelete that task, that will prevent the functions esp_task_wdt_reset() and serialEventRun() from running, which will probably mess something up.

I suggest just using all .cpp files in an Arduino-ESP32 project and using #include <FreeRTOS.h> to pull in the FreeRTOS functions. Your current createAllTasks.c file also doesn’t do that and results in

src/createAllTasks.c: In function 'createAllTasks':
src/createAllTasks.c:16:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'xTaskCreatePinnedToCore' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
     xTaskCreatePinnedToCore(
     ^

even if you #include <stdlib.h>; needs #include <FreeRTOS.h>.

Max,
Thank you, I’ll try your suggestions and what they bring me.
I started out with createAllTasks.cpp but then PlatformIO didn’t recognize xTaskCreatePinnedToCore() at all.

But that’s just due to not doing #include <FreeRTOS.h> (or more simply #include <Arduino.h>)

That is a great insight! Thank you.