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    copied!<p>I've got a really odd error message that only occurs when I add the following line to my project:</p> <pre><code>std::list&lt;CRect&gt; myVar; </code></pre> <p>It's worth noting that it doesn't have to be a std::list, it can be std::vector or any other STL container I assume.</p> <p>Here is the error message:</p> <blockquote> <p>Error 1 error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall std::list</p> <blockquote> <p>::list >(void)" (??0?$list@VCRect@@V?$allocator@VCRect@@@std@@@std@@QAE@XZ) already defined in SomeLowLevelLibrary.lib</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>The low level library that's referenced in the error message has no idea about the project I am building, it only has core low level functionality and doesn't deal with high level MFC GUIs.</p> <p>I can get the linker error to go away if I change the line of code to:</p> <pre><code>std::list&lt;CRect*&gt; myVar; </code></pre> <p>But I don't want to hack it for the sake of it.</p> <p>Also, it doesn't matter if I create the variable on the stack or the heap, I still get the same error.</p> <p>Does anyone have any ideas whatsoever about this? I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Vista Enterprise.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> The linker error above is for the std::list&lt;> constructor, I also get an error for the destructor, _Nextnode and clear functions.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> In other files in the project, std::vector won't link, in other files it might be std::list. I can't work out why some containers work, and some don't. MFC linkage is static across both libraries. In the low level library we have 1 class that inherits from std::list.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> The low level library doesn't have any classes that inherit from CRect, but it does make use of STL.</p>
 

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