[Interest] error: reference to 'byte' is ambiguous with C++17

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 24/07/19 09:25, Vadim Peretokin ha scritto:
> I'm compiling my Qt application with C++17 on Windows with the 
> Qt-provided MinGW 7.3.0 and the Qt definition of a byte is conflicting 
> with the new one defined in the standard (http://wg21.link/p0298r3).
> 
> Here's a snippet of the issue: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Y73FRVqq2n/
> 
> Full build log: 
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Mudlet/mudlet/builds/26199708
> 
> What's the correct solution here?

As your log shows, that (re)definition of "byte" is coming from a MinGW 
header, and not Qt.

Given the definition in the Standard Library is in the namespace std, 
the only possibility for a clash is that there's a "using namespace 
std;" directive somewhere in your code (or in some other header you 
include; Qt does not have anything like that). The solution is, as 
usual, to drop such a directive.

This is the other side of the coin for "using namespace" directives: 
when names are added to those namespaces they may clash against existing 
code, destroying the isolation that namespaces offer in the first place.

HTH,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
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