Other's library #define naming conflict

Question

Hard to come up with a proper title for this problem. Anyway...

I\'m currently working on a GUI for my games in SDL. I\'ve finished the software drawing and was on m

Answer 1

It's an unfortunate side effect of #includeing . Assuming you're not actually using Windows' DrawText() anywhere in your program, it's perfectly safe to #undef it immediately after:

// wherever you #include , or any other windows header
#include 
#undef DrawText