istream and ostream problem - C++ [duplicate]

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I am using two compilers g++ and Dev - C++. when I compile my program on Dev-C++ it compiles perfectly. but when i try to compile it on g++ it gives me two errors:

In file included from a2test.cpp:27:
----.h:25: error: 'ostream' has not been declared
----.h:26: error: 'istream' has not been declared

Can anyone tell me what can I do to solve this problem.

Thanks

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Make sure you include fstream. Also, put "std::" before ostream or put "using namespace std" somewhere.

It would help if you posted the code, as right now I'm just guessing based on common mistakes.

I would guess you forgot to include fstream because different compilers may use different header files and it may be the case that g++ has a header file with

// iostream
#include <fstream>

While Dev-C++ may have

// iostream
// no include for fstream in this file

So you're accidentally importing the correct header file rather than doing it explicitly.

For header files, I just use this site when I forget which one.

ostream - C++ Reference

It seems you need to include ostream to get ostream. Probably the same thing for istream.

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My psychic debugging skills indicate that the problem likely means that your call to g++ and the g++ Dev-CPP is using are different versions of gcc. One of the headers in the (presumably earlier) version included with Dev-CPP might #include a standard C++ header that it doesn't need to, which would allow headers which aren't strictly correct to compile.

Make sure you've actually #included <iostream>, or <istream> and <ostream>, or <iosfwd> -- some header which actually includes these types for you.

(Side Note: Please don't use Dev-CPP -- the project is pretty much dead, and the editor commits quite a few sins. Plus it isn't a good editor anyway. How about Code::Blocks or Visual Studio (both free) instead?)

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dont know if this will help, but firstly, yuou should remember to omit the ".h" that some other compilers (MS-C++) use, but not ANSI/G++.so it should be just

#include <iostream>

Secondly, don't forget :

using namespace std;

3rdly, it's been a long time, but if I remember correctly, in g++, th istream and ostream functions are in the "std" library .. so you can do something like this :

using std::istream;
//later
istream::iostate state = ...

or alternatively, you can use them directly like this :

std::istream::iostate state = ...

Hopefully that'll give you some ideas.