Why am I getting a “member function not present” error when parsing expressions in the VC ++ debugger?

Question

I have a static method, MyClass::myMethod() in another DLL, MyDll.dll . In my code, I call this method, and it compiles and works fine.

But when I try MyClass::myMethod() in the immediate window (or viewport), I always get:

 MyClass::myMethod() CXX0052: Error: member function not present 

Why is this?

Update . I found out that when I use the context operator it works:

 {,,MyDLL}MyClass::myMethod() 

I'm not quite sure why this is necessary, so I'll wait a bit to see if anyone has a good explanation.

Update 2 : I was asked for more information. Unfortunately, I have described almost everything that I have. This is in third-party code. A method that resides in another DLL is declared as follows:

 class MyClass { public: // ... _declspec(dllimport) static const char *getDirectory(void); } 

and it is invoked as follows:

 MyClass::getDirectory () 

I have no source. It was compiled in debug mode in VC ++ 9.

Answer 1

Well, I'm not sure why, but the debugger is not smart enough to know that the class is in another DLL, so you should explicitly talk about this using the context operator :

 {,,MyDLL}MyClass::myMethod() 

Answer 2

Perhaps because your static function is defined in a string.

My test with this class:

 class myclass { public: static int inlinetest() { return 0; } static int test(); }; int myclass::test() { return 0; } 

gives me this result in my closest window:

 myclass::inlinetest() CXX0052: Error: member function not present myclass::test() 0