Showing posts with label Visual Studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Studio. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2011

Some Cryptic ERROR Messages of the Visual Studio 2008 C++ Compiler


Error    1    error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl ReadData(class PathfinderGraph,class std::basic_string,class std::allocator >)" (?ReadData@@YAXVPathfinderGraph@@V?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z) referenced in function "int __cdecl Main(void)" (?Main@@YAHXZ)    pathfinder.obj    assn-6-pathfinder-pc

Cause: The function prototype is not the same as the function implementation.

Example:

/* function prototype */
void ReadData(PathfinderGraph & graph, string filename);

/* function implementation*/
void ReadData(PathfinderGraph graph, string filename)
{




notice the & in the function prototype.