Re: [AD] Conflict between Allegro and std string library

[Jon Rafkind <workmin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

> On May 28, 2004 11:55 am, Maestro wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi
> >
> > There is a conflict between Allegro (4.0) and "string" library.
> > I tried to compile the following code under Dev-C++ 4.9.8.9:
> >    
>
> For some reason the mingw stl headers include the windows.h header... adding 
> -D__GTHREAD_HIDE_WIN32API to your compile step may help.
>
>  
Although I know this is a fairly common fix, I dont know why its needed. 
Ive used mingw in windows 2k and xp and never had to use 
-D__GTHREAD_HIDE_WIN32API.

Anyway, your code would still have errors becuase you cant use string as 
a char* that textout needs. To get around this, use the c_str() function 
of string:

textout(screen, font, String.c_str(),
       (SCREEN_W - text_length(font, String.c_str())) >> 1,
        text_height(font) + 2, 14);

Sorry for the wide distrubution if this has been settled already.