I'm trying to do a project and we have to implement the matrix library newmat. I put all the required files we were given into my VC98 subfolders. Now I getting 46 errors, essentially this block repeated 3 times:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(8 : error C2872: 'streambuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(89) : error C2872: 'streampos' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(89) : error C2872: 'streamoff' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(106) : error C2872: 'streambuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(107) : error C2872: 'filebuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(126) : error C2872: 'streambuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(127) : error C2872: 'filebuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(146) : error C2872: 'streambuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(147) : error C2872: 'filebuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(159) : error C2872: 'ios' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(159) : error C2872: 'ios' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(160) : error C2872: 'filebuf' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(161) : error C2872: 'ios' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(161) : error C2872: 'ios' : ambiguous symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\fstream.h(162) : error C2872: 'filebuf' : ambiguous symbol
I did some searching on google and some people had this problem when they had the lines "using namespace std" before a #include so I put all mine after the #include. I have namespace in 3 files:
Twice like this:
using namespace std;
using namespace NEWMAT;
And once like this:
using namespace NEWMAT;
Any idea what these errors mean?