Parsing a LNK2005 error

[erandall]

If someone has the time, I would like help parsing the pieces of this LNK2005 error:

MFP1.obj : error LNK2005: "void __cdecl fnCloseFiles(class std::basic_ifstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,class std::basic_ofstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &)" (?fnCloseFiles@@YAXAAV?$basic_ifstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@AAV?$basic_ofstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@2@@Z) already defined in CodeSnippetTester.obj

I'm not even using this function in the source file, so I don't know why I'm getting an existing definition in the object. "using namespace std;" is in the source file, but not the header file.

Thanks for any and all help.

ERandall

[vlad from moscow]

From the linker error message it follows that the same function fnCloseFiles was defined in two modules, MFP1.obj and CodeSnippetTester.obj

So check your project.