Re: [Boost-users] [shared_ptr][1.33.0] Header includes troublesomewin32 macros.

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-18 14:47:26

Jason Kankiewicz wrote:
> On win32 using VC7.1, the Windows macros 'CMYK' and 'RGB' are bleeding
> through the 'boost/shared_ptr.hpp' header file.
>
> These are my header file's includes up to and including the offending
> boost header:
>
> #include <algorithm>
> #include <functional>
> #include <iterator>
> #include <set>
> #include <stdexcept>
> #include <string>
> #include <utility>
> #include <vector>
> #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
> #undef CMYK // I added this to make it compile.
> #undef RGB  // I added this to make it compile.
>
> The declarations of my 'CMYK' and 'RGB' functions within this header
> compiled without error until I installed the 1.33.0 release of Boost.
> I had been using the CVS HEAD previously so the error must have been
> introduced during the week or two prior to release.

That's very odd; shared_ptr doesn't include windows.h unless 
BOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H is defined.