M_PI works with math.h but not with cmath in Visual Studio

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Interestingly I checked this on an app of mine and I got the same error.

I spent a while checking through headers to see if there was anything undef’ing the _USE_MATH_DEFINES and found nothing.

So I moved the 

#define _USE_MATH_DEFINES
#include <cmath>

to be the first thing in my file (I don’t use PCHs so if you are you will have to have it after the #include "stdafx.h") and suddenly it compile perfectly.

Try moving it higher up the page. Totally unsure as to why this would cause issues though.

Edit: Figured it out. The #include <math.h> occurs within cmath’s header guards. This means that something higher up the list of #includes is including cmath without the #define specified. math.h is specifically designed so that you can include it again with that define now changed to add M_PI etc. This is NOT the case with cmath. So you need to make sure you #define _USE_MATH_DEFINES before you include anything else. Hope that clears it up for you 🙂

Failing that just include math.h you are using non-standard C/C++ as already pointed out 🙂

Edit 2: Or as David points out in the comments just make yourself a constant that defines the value and you have something more portable anyway 🙂

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