Thread: Cannot open include file

I'm getting ........ed off at this thing. In order to find what file my mistake was in, if there was one, I replaced the main file with a new one that did nothing but contain a main function and include Calendar.hxx. This had the same problem. Then, I commented out the entire Calendar.cxx file (the function definitions for my calendar class), and it worked fine, so I figured the mistake was in there. Then, I took out the comment characters /* ... */, recompiled, and it compiled fine. These are the ONLY things I did. So it went like this:

1. Replaced main file with file containing only #include statement, and int main(){ return( 0 ); } - no success, same error
2. Attempted to compile - no success, same error
3. Added /* and */ to front and end of file - successfully compiled
4. Deleted /* and */ from step 2 - successfully compiled

I'm glad this thing's working and all now, but I'm even more confused than when I started. I am 100% sure that I didn't do anything else, as I was careful to record every step in order to ensure I didn't change something without realizing it, and so I could change things back if need be.

I'll cool down and forget about it now, I suppose.

It was working fine for a while, and now it's not. Once again, it failed to open the Calendar.hxx file. This time, to test whether it was the Calendar file that was F'd up, or something else, I used #include "Event.hxx" (even.hxx is included in calendar.hxx, btw, and I do use #ifndef #define's to be sure it doesn't compile too much). I got the same error saying that it couldn't find Event.hxx. This is after it had been including both of them successfully dozens of times. I don't know what I did. I didn't move the files around or anything, but it just stopped working. I then did the following code for my main file:

#include <iostream.h>
void main(){}

and came up with 109 errors in iostream.h. They were mostly things like ambiguous definition, which is odd because I have NEVER messed around with that file, no one else has on my computer, and I was using it just fine earlier today. I then deleted my main file from the workspace, added a new one, did the exact same code (#include <iostream.h> \n void main(){}), and it compiled successfully. I now have the following code:

//test.cxx

Code:

#include "Event.hxx"

void main(){}

//Event.hxx

Code:

#ifndef EVENT_HXX
#define EVENT_HXX
/*
commented out enums and #includes
*/
class Event
{
/*
commented out all methods and variables
*/
};
#endif

//Event.cxx

Code:

#include "Event.hxx"
/*
commented out all function definitions
*/

Those are the only 3 files currently in my workspace, and that is ALL the code that is not commented out. I can tell because all the rest of it is green. I have made extra sure that I didn't forget to comment anything out.

I am getting extremely frustrated, as I really can't continue working on my class project (I'm doing the calendar portion of a personal finance manager in Win32). Considering I only have about 9 lines of code now in 3 files, I am pretty sure it's no bug of mine. I don't know what would be causing this. I haven't installed any new software in at least a month, and I've been using msvc++6 for about 2 years w/o uninstalling it. I have a virus scanner and firewall, and have no clue what is causing this. Maybe I should give up programming. Please help if you can, because I am completely lost.

~Sean Michael Simonsen