Ok, so the detail that I missed was that the dummy functions

INT poll_event(INT source[], INT count, BOOL test)
{
   return 1;
};

as shown in some of the older examples, work when you set

INT poll_event(INT source, INT count, BOOL test)
{
   return 1;
};


as a side comment, not all drivers are c++ compatible yet (e.g. mscbvr), so changes needed are small