MinGW Problem

[BigBear]

I have been compiling code fine at school and I just installed the newest version of MinGW and it won't compile.

I was wondering if some major changes have been done in version 5.1.6.

Not sure what version I was using at school.

I am having a problem with

code:

#include <iostream> #include <string> #include <fstream> using namespace std; ifstream myFile; myFile.open (_fileName);

code:

myFile.open (_fileName); error: no matching function for call to `std::basic_ifstream<char, std::char_traits<char> >::open(std::string&)'

[TerranceN]

I can see in the error that _fileName is a string, and ifstream.open() does not accept strings. You need to convert it to a c-string (which is just an array of chars) using string's c_str() method (so use _fileName.c_str() instead of just _fileName). Hope that helps.

[Euphoracle]

Didn't I already tell you this on irc...

[BigBear]

Alright thanks that fixed it. I wonder why it worked at school...