[ACCEPTED]-What does this error mean: "error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'type_name'"?-struct

Accepted answer

Score: 62

The compiler doesn't know that spe_context_ptr_t 4 is a type. Check that the appropriate typedef 3 is in scope when this code is compiled. You 2 may have forgotten to include the appropriate 1 header file.

Score: 4

I had the same error message but the solution 3 is different.

The compiler parses the file 2 from top to bottom.

Make sure a struct is 1 defined BEFORE using it into another:

typedef struct
{
    char name[50];
    wheel_t wheels[4]; //wrong, wheel_t is not defined yet
} car_t;

typedef struct
{
    int weight;
} wheel_t;

Score: 2

For iPhone cocoa-touch projects:

I had this 9 problem and thanks to Eric Farraro's comment, I 8 was able to get it resolved. I was importing 7 a class WSHelper.h in many of my other classes. But 6 I also was importing some of those same 5 classes in my WSHelper.h (circular like 4 Eric said). So, to fix this I moved the 3 imports from my WSHelper.h file to my WSHelper.m 2 file as they weren't really needed in the 1 .h file anyway.

Score: 0

You have to name your struct like that:

typedef struct car_t {

   char

   wheel_t

} car_t;

Score: 0

I got it with an import loop:

---FILE B.h
#import "A.h"
@interface B{
  A *a;
}
@end

---FILE A.h
#import "B.h"
@interface A{      
}
@end

Score: 0

I was able to sort this out using Gorgando's 4 fix, but instead of moving imports away, I 3 commented each out individually, built the 2 app, then edited accordingly until I got 1 rid of them.

Source: stackoverflow.com

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