[Mingw-users] Re: Errors building cpp program

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Add `using namespace std;' to the global space.

Earnie.

Lorne Easton wrote:
> 
> Earnie,
> 
> Just downloaded the new version of Mingw (2.0.3).. Good work on the release.. Are there any breaking changes for this release? Perhaps a problem with the linker? I will summarise..
> 
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> PATH=C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManage\Drac\client;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;c:\perl\bin;C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManage\ArrayManager;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN;c:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;c:\mingw\bin;c:\mingw\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\WinNT
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> //broken.cpp
> 
> #include <string>
> 
> int main(void) {
> 
>   string Test;
> 
> }
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> C:\projects\c++\win32_wrapper_classes\ping>c++ broken.cpp -o test.exe
> broken.cpp: In function `int main()':
> broken.cpp:5: `string' undeclared (first use this function)
> broken.cpp:5: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
>    function it appears in.)
> broken.cpp:5: parse error before `;' token
> 
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> 
> Thanks in advance for your help. I hope this isn't a stupid question; but code that I have been working on with the old version that compiled clean would not compile with 2.0.3...
> 
> Regards,
> Lorne