Hey are anyone able to tell me wth is going on here? I've been experimenting with stdafx.h precompiled header.

#pragma once
/*I get all includes from #include "stdafx.h",which I've been explained should be located in the .cpp file
The SDL_'s are fully capable of finding the SDL.h file included in stdafx.h
*/
    class Display
    {
    public: Display(int width, int height, const std::string& title);

    void update();

    ~Display();
protected:
private:

    //... AND YET, I get an compiler Error C2143 in the line below: "syntax error : missing ';' before '*'"
    SDL_Window* window;  <-- This line

    SDL_Renderer* renderer;
    SDL_Texture* image;
    SDL_Rect bgRect;
    SDL_Rect imageRect;
};

So what am I doing wrong? Btw, I haven't actually done anything to explicitly precompile the header, I've just created stdafx.h for now and put all #includes inside that file.

Or am I just blind? Thanks for input.

That syntax error almost always means that the compiler can't find the struct/class that you're referring to. Does the header include stdafx.h, or just the source file? If not, you'll either need to include it there or forward declare your structs.

I'm an idiot. Make sure your #include "stdafx.h" line in your accompanying cpp file is included first, before anything else. That's required for precompiled headers anyway, but it will lead to what you're seeing whether the header is precompiled or not. That said, you should still forward declare your pointer types used in headers, because it's good practice.

Ah ok, I think I get it now. I'll mess around with what fastcall said. Thanks. And yeah, VS2015

Visual Studio? You’ll need to configure your project to “Use Precompiled Headers”, and configure stdafx.cpp to “Create Precompiled Header”.

Ok, so I've done this, but I have another problem:

If I put:

You shouldn't put that in the header. It is both the declaration and the definition.

By putting that in a header file, you create a new instance of that object in every cpp file.

Declare it (announce that it exists) in the header. That's with: extern const std::string TITLE;

Define it (actually create an instance) in a single C++ file. That's with: const std::string TITLE = "gameTitle";

The compiler will note that it says 'extern' and doesn't actually create an instance, so it will include a marker that it needs to find the object at link time. The linker will notice the marker, find the file that has a real instance, and replace the marker with the actual object address.