Syntax error compiling header containing "char[]"

Question

I am trying to build a Visual C++ 2008 DLL using SDL_Mixer 1.2:

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

This is supposedly from a build made for Visual C++, but when I include SDL_mixer.h I get error C2143: "syntax error : missing ';' before '['".

The problem line is:

const char[] MIX_EFFECTSMAXSPEED = "MIX_EFFECTSMAXSPEED";

Is this because of the use of the dynamic array construct "char[]", instead of "char*"?

All the expressions in the file are wrapped by "extern "C" {".

Answer 1

move the square brackets after the variable name

const char MIX_EFFECTSMAXSPEED[] = "MIX_EFFECTSMAXSPEED";

Answer 2

You want:

const char MIX_EFFECTSMAXSPEED[] = "MIX_EFFECTSMAXSPEED";

Note that there is no "dynamic array construct" here - you have an array of char that is initialised witha string literal - all compile time things.

Answer 3

My bad. Although the answers here are correct regarding C construct, the actual problem was that I had included a "D" language file instead of the C version.