char* misinterpreted as int*

Hi everybody!
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and don't know how to solve this problem. Till now, everything worked just fine, included all the necessary libs, headers and so on.

But there is the problem:
I have to implement a class ColorSpaces with static member functions, which manipulates a buffer from the class MSImage and returns it.

ColorSpaces.h looks like this:

Code:

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class ColorSpaces
{
public:
        ColorSpaces();
        virtual ~ColorSpaces(void);

        // returns a buffer, where the L,a,b values of a given MSImage are stored
        static char* calculateLab(MSImage* image);
        static char* calculateLuv(MSImage* image);
        static char* calculateRG(MSImage* image);

};

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ColorSpaces.cpp does nothing much till now, but looks like this:

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ColorSpaces::ColorSpaces()
{
}

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ColorSpaces::~ColorSpaces(void)
{
}

char* ColorSpaces::calculateLab(MSImage* image)
{
//        cout << image->data3D << endl;
}

char* ColorSpaces::calculateLuv(MSImage* image)
{

}

char* ColorSpaces::calculateRG(MSImage* image)
{

}

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I'm calling calculateLab from main:

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MSImage msimage(str,false); // reads image and safes it in unsigned char*** data3D
ColorSpaces::calculateLab(&msimage);

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Problem 1:
Why I get this error message?

Code:

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error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static char * __cdecl ColorSpaces::calculateLab(class MSImage *)" (?calculateLab@ColorSpaces@@SAPADPAVMSImage@@@Z)

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Problem 2:
When I'm hoovering over calculateLab with my mouse, tooltip says:

Code:

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int* ColorSpaces::calculateLab(void);

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Why is that?

Can anybody help me pleeze? Would be much appreciated. Thx

Bye
Adamn

can you post the complete code for both files?

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Originally Posted by nadroj

can you post the complete code for both files?

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This is the complete code for ColorSpaces.cpp and ColorSpaces.h .... to post all the other stuff, i think its too complicated.

i was just wondering about the includes.
the error looks like either something isnt included that needs to be or it cant find the proper .lib file that MSImage needs, is my guess.

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Originally Posted by nadroj

i was just wondering about the includes.
the error looks like either something isnt included that needs to be or it cant find the proper .lib file that MSImage needs, is my guess.

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#include "ColorSpaces.h" is inserted in main.cpp, ColorSpaces.cpp and in MSImage.h.
#include "MSImage.h" is inserted in MSImage.cpp

The strange this is, everything just worked fine before I inserted the ColorSpaces class. Has this maybe something to do with the static member functions in ColorSpaces?

And what about this misinterpretation? It should be char* and not int*.

Thx for trying to help!

im not sure.
but since you have declared it static in the header i would declare it static in the cpp file. also, you are declaring it to return something (a static char*, according to the header), but you arent returning anything. fix those two things, save, compile, then see if it is still showing the wrong return type.

im off to bed but will check back in the morning.

edit: this may help http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ml/lnk2001.asp

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Originally Posted by nadroj

im not sure.
but since you have declared it static in the header i would declare it static in the cpp file. also, you are declaring it to return something (a static char*, according to the header), but you arent returning anything. fix those two things, save, compile, then see if it is still showing the wrong return type.

im off to bed but will check back in the morning.

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If I declare it as static in the cpp file, it says " 'static' should not be used on member functions defined at file scope" ... so there wasn't the problem.
And I returned something .... still the same problem!

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Originally Posted by nadroj

edit: this may help http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ml/lnk2001.asp

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From msdn:

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Static functions/variables

Functions declared with the static modifier by definition have file scope. Static variables have the same limitation. Trying to access any static variables from outside of the file in which they are declared can result in a compile error or an unresolved external depending on the specific coding of the source files.

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This seems to be my problem, but there is no solution to this suggested!

don't declare it as static...?

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Originally Posted by robwhit

don't declare it as static...?

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Ehm, this is a static function within a class - and I think the problem is that it's declared static in the header file _AND_ in the .cpp file, which isn't required [and apparently not correct].

A static class-member can be called outside of the class. [This is quite extensively used in the code where I work...]

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Mats

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Originally Posted by matsp

Ehm, this is a static function within a class - and I think the problem is that it's declared static in the header file _AND_ in the .cpp file, which isn't required [and apparently not correct].
Mats

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It's NOT declared as static in the cpp file. I got the solution now....

Code:

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class __declspec(dllexport) ColorSpaces

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Thx for all your support!

Adamn