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Itay209
Itay209

Reputation: 131

expected an identifier when including windows h (C)

when including the windows.h library , i suddenly get this weird error

NOTE: when i didnt use windows.h, the program worked just fine. this is the code:

typedeferror

only the true and false enums are not compiling.. why is that? thank you guys very much.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1379

Answers (2)

Russell Kent
Russell Kent

Reputation: 76

TRUE and FALSE are usually #defined as -1 and 0 (or perhaps 1 and 0). So when the first pass of the compiler does the substitution, the next pass of the compiler is given:

typedef enum{ -1, 0 }bools;

which is obviously not valid syntax.

Upvotes: 0

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 133599

Mostly because TRUE and FALSE are already defined as macros in "windows.h" (or included by it).

So somewhere there is, for example,

#define TRUE (1)

That code gets replaced inside your enum declaration raising a syntax error.

Upvotes: 4

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