trouble with time_t

[Rich Bernstein]

I am getting

"gate.h"(270,5) syntax error; found 'identifier' expecting '}'.

From this line
time_t iStartTime; //begining of this

How can I fix this?

[RobertoBozzolo]

This is usually related to having defined elsewhere in your application a panel or control with the same name as the variable od structure field interested (in your case iStartTime). Find the control or panel: renaming it will solve the problem.

[JuanCarlos]

Hi,

There is also the option that you need to define something before including the h file. If some of the definitions on the h file are conditional (#ifdef) you may need to define something to get this to compile properly. This is common with the Windows SDK where sometimes you need to define the version of Windows you are compiling for.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Juan Carlos
N.I.

[Rich Bernstein]

well, in the include file of mine where I was using time_t I substituted unsigned int, which took care of it. But I AM also getting the problem in io.h itself.

[JuanCarlos]

It is possible that you can get rid of this errors by changing the order of your include statements. time_t is defined in time.h that will be included by ansi_c.h. Make sure that your include ansi_c.h is at the top of all the includes.

You can also try to include time.h explicitly in your file to make sure that time_tis being declared.

I hope this helps.

Juan Carlos

[Rich Bernstein]

I tried adding a line which says that if time_t is not defined, then define it. This gets rid of the problem, but now I get

"Io.h"(110,20) Redeclaration of 'time_t'.

in every module that uses io.h. How can I both have it defined and not defined????

#ifndef _FINDDATA_T_DEFINED
#ifndef time_t //<
typedef long time_t; //<
#endif //<
struct _finddata_t {
unsigned attrib;
time_t time_create; /* -1 for FAT file systems */
time_t time_access; /* -1 for FAT file systems */
time_t time_write;
_fsize_t size;
char name[260];
};

[Rich Bernstein]

no ideas?