Question

I don’t know if it’s right to ask this question here or not.
I’m trying to use Crypto++ library in a project. I can’t even get started with it. This is the code I’m trying:

#include <cryptlib.h>
#include <sha.h>

int main()
{
    SHA hash;  // ERROR here. can't find SHA
    return 0;
}

I tried reading the readme file included in the download package. I tried this and still didn’t manage to get it to work. I’m using VS2010.

Answer 1

From here:

NAMESPACE_BEGIN(CryptoPP)

class CRYPTOPP_DLL SHA : public ...

it appears that SHA is a member of namespace CryptoPP. Try:

CryptoPP::SHA hash;