'uint32_t' does not name a type

Question

I\'m trying to compile a C++ software package that was written in 2007 and I\'m getting this error:

error: ‘uint32_t’ does not name a type

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Answer 1

The other answers assume that your compiler is C++11 compliant. That is fine if it is. But what if you are using an older compiler?

I picked up the following hack somewhere on the net. It works well enough for me:

  #if defined __UINT32_MAX__ or UINT32_MAX
  #include 
  #else
  typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
  typedef unsigned short uint16_t;
  typedef unsigned long uint32_t;
  typedef unsigned long long uint64_t;
  #endif

It is not portable, of course. But it might work for your compiler.