Re: visual studio 2005 C++ link error

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:18:01 -0600
Message-ID:
<9qavq2p1pbkpss7u7aotc0ntac9599aei5@4ax.com>
On 18 Jan 2007 08:40:20 -0800, santoshjoseph73@gmail.com wrote:

I'm porting a project from 2003 to 2005 and now I get a linking error.
I have a library called ts_exception.lib which using std::strings and
when linking in that library I get the following error message:

msvcprt.lib(MSVCP80.dll) : error LNK2005: "class
std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class
std::allocator<char> > __cdecl std::operator+<char,struct
std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(char const *,class
std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class
std::allocator<char> > const &)"
(??$?HDU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@1@@std@@YA?AV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@0@PBDABV10@@Z)
already defined in ts_exception.lib(iexception.obj)

It seems the compiler has instantiaited "operator+(char*,string &)" in
both modules and is confused on which one to pick. Is this a known
bug? Should I upgrade to SP1? thanks for any help.


Did you recompile ts_exception.lib with the new compiler?

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Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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