Thread: VC++ settings

I am writting a small program in VC++ 6, which has a class and a driver to test it. It compiles ok, but when I try to build it, i get 14 identical errors for each function in the class. The error is:

date.obj : error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall Date:ate(void)" (??0Date@@QAE@XZ) already defined in driver.obj

I have had a search on the net and this forum and this problem is supposed to be caused by using <iostream> instead of <iostream.h> etc, for the other headers. But i have not done that.

The program builds and runs fine in dev c++ which is why I think it may be a setting in VC++ somewhere but there are a lot of them.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks in advance

I don't know exactly what that means, but sometimes I get something like that if you include the same header file in two files you are linking. Try only including the iostream.h in a header file and including that in the source files. This may have something to do with it.

It worked, although I don't understand why. I was taught that all the standard libaries use the #ifndef pre processor directive to prevent this sort of problem.

Anyway, thanks for the help.