Question

I ran into a bit of a problem writing a wrapper for a third party library today. They’ve used generic as a variable name in a couple of structs. When I try to compile this in Visual Studio as a C++/CLI library project the compiler complains.

Example of the code below.

typedef struct
{
  UINT8 generic;
  UINT8 id[3];

  ...

} HEADER;

How can I work around this and compile a C++/CLI project using this library?

Answer 1

Since you’re already wrapping this third-party library, your wrapper could do something like:

#define generic generic_
#include "original.h"
#undef generic