What does this error mean?

[Wootens]

hey guys,

I'm writing a program and trying to output data to a file and I'm getting this error:

1>------ Build started: Project: GenericProgram, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1> Source1.cpp
1>c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\fstream(1116): error C2248: 'std::basic_ios<_Elem,_Traits>::basic_ios' : cannot access private member declared in class 'std::basic_ios<_Elem,_Traits>'
1> with
1> [
1> _Elem=char,
1> _Traits=std::char_traits<char>
1> ]
1> c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\ios(176) : see declaration of 'std::basic_ios<_Elem,_Traits>::basic_ios'
1> with
1> [
1> _Elem=char,
1> _Traits=std::char_traits<char>
1> ]
1> This diagnostic occurred in the compiler generated function 'std::basic_ofstream<_Elem,_Traits>::basic_ofstream(const std::basic_ofstream<_Elem,_Traits> &)'
1> with
1> [
1> _Elem=char,
1> _Traits=std::char_traits<char>
1> ]
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Can someone explain this to me and perhaps how to fix it?

I'm trying to pass fout between functions.

Cheers,

Wootens

[vijayan121]

> I'm trying to pass fout between functions.

You cannot pass a stream object to a function by value - the copy constructor is private / deleted.

Pass by reference instead: void my_function( std::ostream& fout ) ;