Re: [Boost-Users] Really dumb question from g++ newbie

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-23 05:44:19

> I've developed my library with MSVC7 and am now trying to test on as many
> compiler as possible. Using g++ 2.95.3-5 on cywin, I get a compiler error
> using std::distance
>
> `distance' undeclared in namespace `std'
>
> I have tried all the obvious includes, but the problem seems to be a
> configuration issue for using namespaces. The code compiles on
> VC7/Dinkumware, VC7/STLport-4.5.3 and BCC 5.5.1 so I am confident that
there
> is no error in the code itself.
>
> Could someone please point me in the right direction?

Almost certainly a missing:

#include <iterator>

Apologies if you've tried that already...  cygwin definitely has a
std::distance though...

John Maddock
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