game array help!

[popa6200]

'm making a game, and currently i'm making a class to help with creating the map for the game, but when I compile I get an error


invalid use of non-static data member ‘gameMap::townstartlimit’ on line: 2

and on line 3 it says: from this location


and my code is:

int townlimit=rand() % 20 + 1; //max amount of towns in a game
int townstartlimit=round((townlimit/2));//the amount of natural towns to spawn when map is created 
string currenttowns[townstartlimit];

ps.: I'm using Code::Blocks 13.12

[Peter87]

You can only initialize non-static data member variables like that in C++11. Maybe your compiler is too old or maybe you just need to enable C++11 somewhere in the settings. The traditional way to initialize is to do it in the constructor.

[joe7]

The compiler doesn't know what townstartlimit will be, so you have to either use dynamic memory allocation, or set the array limit arbitrarily high like this:

string currenttowns[16];