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Bug 613 - GetObject redefined as GetObjectA by wingdi.h
Summary: GetObject redefined as GetObjectA by wingdi.h
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: video (show other bugs)
Version: HG 1.2
Hardware: x86 Windows (All)
: P2 minor
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
URL:
Keywords: target-1.2.14
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Reported: 2008-08-13 04:09 UTC by jellegeerts
Modified: 2009-09-21 01:57 UTC (History)
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Description jellegeerts 2008-08-13 04:09:09 UTC 
SDL_opengl.h includes windows.h. The windows.h header includes wingdi.h which has #define GetObject GetObjectA. The wingdi.h header I'm talking about is from MinGW 3.4.5.

I have a method in a class of mine that I call GetObject. In the class definition I do not include SDL_opengl.h (so GetObject is not redefined as GetObjectA). However, somewhere else I do include SDL_opengl.h and am trying to call my GetObject() method. This fails with "error: 'class SomeClass' has no member named 'GetObjectA'".

Of course it would be a bit hard to #undef everything that the windows headers define, but one who uses SDL should be able to use GetObject as method name, I think?

I'm not sure what is the best solution to this problem.
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-13 16:33:36 UTC 
Tagging this bug with "target-1.2.14" so we can try to resolve it for SDL 1.2.14.

Please note that we may choose to resolve it as WONTFIX. This tag is largely so we have a comprehensive wishlist of bugs to examine for 1.2.14 (and so we can close bugs that we'll never fix, rather than have them live forever in Bugzilla).

--ryan.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-21 01:57:27 UTC 
There's not a lot we can do about that.  SDL_opengl.h needs to include <windows.h>, although it tries to include the minimal functionality there.