question  Adding a header file?

FireFreek (7)   Link to this post
So I have a file called main.cpp and another called Character.h, in the same folder in a DevC++ project:
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//main.cpp
int main()
{

return 0;
}
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//Character.h
class Character
{


}


Now when I put #include "Character.h" before int main()


It gives me an error:
2 C:\Projects\Overworld\main.cpp new types may not be defined in a return type
2 C:\Projects\Overworld\main.cpp extraneous `int' ignored
C:\Projects\Overworld\main.cpp In function `Character _mangled_main()':
5 C:\Projects\Overworld\main.cpp conversion from `int' to non-scalar type `Character' requested
C:\Projects\Overworld\Makefile.win [Build Error] [main.o] Error 1
Kiana (72)   Link to this post
Stop using Dev C++; it is, to be quite frank, shit.

Use MSVC++ 2008. [url]http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/[/url]
Tevsky (91)   Link to this post
You are missing a semi colon at the end of your class

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class Character {


};


Kiana: You would get an error for this in both Dev C++ and VS....
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FireFreek (7)   Link to this post
Thanks for that, i didn't know classes needed semicolons. I'm new to classes in C++ though.

Personally I like DevC++ better than MSVC++, it's much simpler and easier to use for a beginner like me.
NGen (235)   Link to this post
Whenever you declare a class, you can also declare objects of that class:

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class myClass{
    int myPrivateMember;
} myClass_Instance;


That's what the semicolon's for.

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