RE: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC Still not Building

[Norman Vine]

Jonathan Polley  writes: 

Although SimGear is now building under MSVC (thanks).

MSVC also does not like having constants defined in a class (net_fdm.hxx and raw_ctrls.hxx).

static const int FG_MAX_ENGINES = 4;
static const int FG_MAX_WHEELS = 3;
static const int FG_MAX_TANKS = 2;

When I used the recommended, and I apologize for not remembering by whom, change to

enum {FG_MAX_TANKS = 2,
FG_MAX_WHEELS = 3,
FG_MAX_ENGINES = 4,
};

it compiles, links, and runs just fine. 

 

I believe that all that is needed is to declare the variables

outside of the class declaration with file scpe 

ie in the header  -- foo.hxx

class foo {

static const int a:

}

and then in the C file  - foo.cxx - somthing like this should work

const int foo::a = 5;

Norman