to_string is not a member of std, says g++ (mingw)

Question

I am making a small vocabulary remembering program where words would would be flashed at me randomly for meanings. I want to use standard C++ library as Bjarne Stroustroup t

Answer 1

in codeblocks go to setting -> compiler setting -> compiler flag -> select std c++11 done. I had the same problem ... now it's working !

Answer 2

As suggested this may be an issue with your compiler version.

Try using the following code to convert a long to std::string:

#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    std::ostringstream ss;
    long num = 123456;
    ss << num;
    std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl;
}

Answer 3

Change default C++ standard

From (COMPILE FILE FAILED) error: 'to_string' is not a member of 'std'

-std=c++98

To (COMPILE FILE SUCCESSFUL)

-std=c++11 or -std=c++14

Tested on Cygwin G++(GCC) 5.4.0

Answer 4

For anyone wondering why this happens on Android, it's probably because you're using a wrong c++ standard library. Try changing the c++ library in your build.gradle from gnustl_static to c++_static and the c++ standard in your CMakeLists.txt from -std=gnu++11 to -std=c++11

Answer 5

This is a known bug under MinGW. Relevant Bugzilla. In the comments section you can get a patch to make it work with MinGW.

This issue has been fixed in MinGW-w64 distros higher than GCC 4.8.0 provided by the MinGW-w64 project. Despite the name, the project provides toolchains for 32-bit along with 64-bit. The Nuwen MinGW distro also solves this issue.

Answer 6

If we use a template-light-solution (as shown above) like the following:

namespace std {
    template<typename T>
    std::string to_string(const T &n) {
        std::ostringstream s;
        s << n;
        return s.str();
    }
}

Unfortunately, we will have problems in some cases. For example, for static const members:

hpp

class A
{
public:

    static const std::size_t x = 10;

    A();
};

cpp

A::A()
{
    std::cout << std::to_string(x);
}

And linking:

CMakeFiles/untitled2.dir/a.cpp.o:a.cpp:(.rdata$.refptr._ZN1A1xE[.refptr._ZN1A1xE]+0x0): undefined reference to `A::x'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Here is one way to solve the problem (add to the type size_t):

namespace std {
    std::string to_string(size_t n) {
        std::ostringstream s;
        s << n;
        return s.str();
    }
}

HTH.