ERROR: aggregate has incomplete type and cannot be defined

Hi all,

I'm writing the following class for digital image inpainting:
http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~jon...mgPlane.h.html
http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~jon...Plane.cpp.html

However, when I compile, I get the following error:
FBInpainting/imgPlane.cpp: In member function ‘void imgPlane::writeLine(pixel, pixel, int, int)’:
FBInpainting/imgPlane.cpp:207: error: aggregate ‘pixel now’ has incomplete type and cannot be defined

I'm not sure what is "incomplete type", actually, I have no forward reference, etc.
So, I have no idea how to fix this error.
Any suggestion?

As the definition of pixel, please refer to the lines 21 ~ 23 of the header file.

Thanks a lot!

Could you provide the code as an attachment (without the line numbers and without parts that depend on additional header, so it is a minimal compilable example that produces your problem)?

I don't see anything really wrong except that the signatures of writeLine are a bit ambiguous because of the default parameter. (Perhaps try removing the first overload altogether since it doesn't add anything)

You also don't need to use the struct keyword when declaring instances in C++ (unlike C) but that should have nothing to do with the problem.

You may have a conflict between a GIL identifier and your own struct pixel. I'm not sure if GIL contains anything called pixel, but I wouldn't be surprised.

That's why you shouldn't import complete namespaces.

To anon:
Here is the compilable example:
http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~jon...temp/trunk.tar
If you're running *NIX OS, simply type "make" to compile.
However, the source code depends on GUI library FLTK and Boost gil...
FLTK: http://www.fltk.org/
Boost gil: http://stlab.adobe.com/gil/documentation.html

Besides, if I use simply "pixel" rather than "struct pixel"
compiler will complain about "ambiguous reference to pixel"
Maybe its result from the the namespace conflict in boost::gil:: pixel and my own pixel

To CornedBee:
Yeah, you're right.
boost::gil also has its own struct pixel
So, what is the recommended solution to this problem?
Though, I know I can either rename my own pixel to my_pixel or something similar,
or reference every member in gil by specify the full namespace like boost::gil::some_member.

I'd alias the gil namespace to
namespace gil = boost::gil;
and then explicitly qualify everything.