RE: [gtkmm] Must include <iostream> or I get an error?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Moses McKnight wrote:
> Here's something which has bugged me off and on.  I have been 
> slowly learning 
> gtkmm over time and have run into this peculiarity now a 
> couple of times (and 
> forgot it and had to figure it out again!)  I find if I don't 
> #include 
> <iostream> (whether I'm using it or not) before including 
> <gtkmm.h> and 
> <libgnomeuimm.h> I get the following types of errors:
> 
> /usr/include/libintl.h:44: error: parse error before `__const'
> 
> It seems like before the errors may have been slightly 
> different but similar and 
> just as meaningless to me.  I'm currently using g++ 3.3 but 
> this has happened 
> through several compiler versions.
> 
> Is this a bug?  Has anyone else run into this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moses

What distro are you using?

Does gtkmm build from source for you? There are several examples that do not
#include <iostream> and they are built as part of the main build.