Thread: Having difficulty resolving error

Hello everyone. I have tried my best to remedy this error that I am having. I've been working on a game engine and have written 200 files, but for some reason this one is giving me trouble. I'm sure its something arbitrary that I'm not seeing. I'm getting these errors in VS 2008:
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'rect'
error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int

The Rectangle file is:

Code:

#ifndef RECTANGLE_H
#define RECTANGLE_H

#include "MathHeader.h"
#include "Vector3.h"

class Rectangle
{
public:
	Rectangle(void);
	Rectangle(const Vector3& center, const Vector3* axes, const real* halfWidths);
	~Rectangle(void);

	Vector3 closestPointToRect(const Vector3& point);

	Vector3 center;
	Vector3 axes[2];
	real halfWidths[2];
};
#endif

and the header file that uses the rectangle is:

Code:

#ifndef CONSOLE_H
#define CONSOLE_H

#include "WindowsGLIncludes.h"
#include "AbstractGameObject.h"
#include "MathHeader.h"
#include "Rectangle.h"
#include "Vector3.h"
#include "HardwareBufferManager.h"

class Console : public AbstractGameObject
{
public:
	Console(void);
	Console(const int& width, const int& height, const Vector3& center);
	virtual ~Console(void);

	void update();
	void animate(real elapsedSeconds);
	void render();

	Rectangle rect;
};
#endif

I don't know why its having trouble understanding the rectangle type. If anyone can give me assistance I would be very grateful.

I can post the source files if that would make it easier to find.
Thanks,
Adam

It's coming from the declaration of the rectangle object in the Console class. I have already checked that and just about everything else. The compiler doesn't think the rectangle class exists for some reason, but the class compiles fine. I have tried multiple classes to try and get an instance of the rect class and it will always throw the same errors. Here is my rectangle source:
#include "Rectangle.h"

Code:

/**
	Default constructor
*/
Rectangle::Rectangle(void)
{

}

/**
	Constructor to initialize attributes
*/
Rectangle::Rectangle(const Vector3& center, const Vector3* axes, const real* halfWidths)
{
	this->center = center;
	for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
	{
		this->axes[i] = axes[i];
	}
	for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
	{
		this->halfWidths[i] = halfWidths[i];
	}
}

/**
	Default destructor
*/
Rectangle::~Rectangle(void)
{

}

/**
	Finds the closest point on a rectangle to a given point in space.
*/
Vector3 Rectangle::closestPointToRect(const Vector3 &point)
{
	Vector3 q;
	Vector3 d = point - this->center;

	q = this->center;

	for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) 
	{
		//distance from axis to center
		real distance = d.dot(this->axes[i]);

		//clamp to rect if distance exceeds it
		if (distance > this->halfWidths[i]) 
			distance = this->halfWidths[i];
		if (distance < -this->halfWidths[i]) 
			distance = -this->halfWidths[i];

		//get world coordinate
		q += this->axes[i] * distance;
	}

	return q;
}

Does anyone here have any suggestions? I still get the same errors when I do a forward declaration of the rectangle class. All of my ideas have ran dry.

Well the way I tried it originally was what I posted, which did include the Rectangle header. I tried the forward declaration in desperation to try and resolve this issue. I did make the rectangle a pointer when I did that though. I still can't figure out why the compiler doesn't see the rectangle class. The code looks all well and good to me. Any other ideas?