Re: Problem with conflicting declaration

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Reza Housseini <address@hidden>
> To: help <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:36 PM
> Subject: Problem with conflicting declaration
> 
> Hello list
> 
> I'm writing an oct-file with an external library. The problem is, that
> this external library has a "typedef struct SparseMatrix" and I get
> the following error when compiling:
> 
>   /usr/include/Siconos/Numerics/SparseMatrix.h:46:3: error:
> conflicting declaration ‘typedef struct SparseMatrix SparseMatrix’
>   /usr/include/octave-3.6.1/octave/dSparse.h:46:1: error: ‘class
> SparseMatrix’ has a previous declaration as ‘class SparseMatrix’
> 
> How can I circumvent this problem?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Cheers Reza


AFAIR it's

typedef old_type new_type;
.

And if SparseMatrix is already a struct, you do not need the 'struct' keyword 
in 'typedef'.

Regards,
  Sergei.