#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std

int main()
{
string strName = "SomeGuy";
cout << strName << endl;
}



this should work...

1) Are you getting a compiler error or a linker error ?

2) What is the EXACT error message the compiler is giving you - "it says there are undeclared identifiers" doesn''t tell us enough to give any exact help.

3) Which compiler?, MSVC?, DevC?, GCC?, ProDG?, CodeWarrior?, Lattice?, Easy?, Watcom?, etc...?, which version?

4) Post some code - maybe something in an earlier header, or an incorrect pragma in your code or a bad define etc is causing those to not actually be included.

5) If the error is actually a linker error, check that you haven''t been playing with the linker options and done something like Ignore All Default Libraries or changed the version of the CRT in use.

6) Are you using anything like MiniCRT (i.e. trying to make a tiny .exe and so changing the default compile behaviours)

7) Have you recently installed a new version of the Platform SDK ? - make sure its environment variables have been set up and its entries are in the Tools->Options->Directories list (assuming MSVC...)

8) Check the Tools->Options->Directories anyway to make sure there are entries in there for lib files.


I reckon it''s probably something wrong near the top of your source code file unless you''ve been fiddling with compiler options.

500x3

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Simon O''Connor
Creative Asylum Ltd
www.creative-asylum.com

Or possibility 3, something is misconfigured with your MSVC installation.

Or possibility 4, something up with your precompiled headers (e.g. you''re including a stdafx.h somewhere and the required headers aren''t in it).

I just visited that site and the code builds fine for me with MSVC (with the November 2001 Platform SDK, but that won''t matter). What I did:

1) Open DevStudio
2) Select New->Projects and choose Win32 Console Application
3) Set a name and path
4) Select "An empty project" from the "what kind of console application" dialog.
5) Finish, Ok
6) File->New...->C++ Source File - blah.cpp
7) Copy code from that site into blah.cpp (no other contents in file)
8) remove the condefs.h #include since that file doesn''t exist in MSVC
9) Hit F7 to build -:

Compiling...blah.cppe:\projects\experiments\moo\blah.cpp(73) : warning C4068: unknown pragmaLinking...moo.exe - 0 error(s), 1 warning(s) 

The unknown pragma is simply complaining about the Borland argsused, it''s only used in that code to prevent a warning on Borland compilers.

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Simon O''Connor
Creative Asylum Ltd
www.creative-asylum.com

I recently had a problem with wanting to use getch() within a C++ program, where didn''t have it. What I had to do was include the original file (where getch() is defined), but put ''extern "C" {'' around it for it to fit in, like so:

extern "C" {#include <conio.h>} 

and then the rest of my headers, and so forth. It worked fine. Perhaps you''d like to do that?

Twilight Dragon