C programming: Dereferencing pointer to incomplete type error

Question

I have a struct defined as:

struct {
 char name[32];
 int  size;
 int  start;
 int  popularity;
} stasher_file;

and an array of pointers

Answer 1

the case above is for a new project. I hit upon this error while editing a fork of a well established library.

the typedef was included in the file I was editing but the struct wasn't.

The end result being that I was attempting to edit the struct in the wrong place.

If you run into this in a similar way look for other places where the struct is edited and try it there.