[Captain Vimes]

GRAHHHH

Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.
I'm doing the space invaders thing, and I keep getting this error whenever I compile (or something like it, I can't remember exactly and my laptop stopped working again so I can't check):

in (file included from vector.h) _M_begin is undefined, first use this function
_M_insert is undefined, first use this function
(rinse and repeat with various vector functions)

What the heck does this MEAN, people?! I realize *insert_vector_name_here*.insert() and everything are vector functions, but why is there an _M_ in front and why is it causing an error? I've used vectors before without any problem.

Any ideas? I've spent the past four days trying to fix this and various other errors, but they were all coding errors on my part and I've fixed them. I have no idea whether this has something to do with my code or not. If it does, let me know and I'll mess around until it works. If not, then how do I fix it?

Oh, something I just remembered too. I'm declaring my vectors like this:

vector<variable_type> m_vThingy;

and similar, and I've done that before, but this time it says "expected ';' before '<' token" or something like that. What's that mean, or is it the same problem as what's causing the above error?
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[XMark]

I'm kind of out of practice with "real" programming (I'm just doing php at work, hehe) but it sounds like some sort of a casting problem. I think you're not putting exactly the right data type in so when it tries to call a compiler-generated version of the function (template?) for that data type, it doesn't find it.

Just a guess though, there's a fair chance that I'm wayyyy off the mark :)
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[Ninkazu]

Do you have the line
using namespace std;
in your code? If not you have to say std::vector instead of just vector.

[Captain Vimes]

Okay:

@XMark: ...uh... what? I'm a n00b. Please speak n00b. Thanks.
@Ninkazu: yes, I do.

If it means anything, the Sprite* that I'm putting into the vector has SDL data types in it (SDL_Rect, SDL_Surface, etc.).
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[etscrivner]

Are you including vector.h? If so you might try switching to include <vector> instead, vector.h on some compilers can work in unexpected ways.