pubsubclient won't compile in Arduino and VSCode IDEs

Question

I've compiled successfully a year ago in Arduino IDE, but lately I'm getting fatal errors:

/Users/davidjeffers/Documents/Arduino/libraries/PubSubClient/src/PubSubClient.cpp: At global scope:
/Users/davidjeffers/Documents/Arduino/libraries/PubSubClient/src/PubSubClient.cpp:473:8: error: redefinition of 'size_t PubSubClient::write(uint8_t)'
size_t PubSubClient::write(uint8_t data) {
^
In file included from /Users/davidjeffers/Documents/Arduino/libraries/PubSubClient/src/PubSubClient.cpp:7:0:
/Users/davidjeffers/Documents/Arduino/libraries/PubSubClient/src/PubSubClient.h:160:19: error: 'virtual size_t PubSubClient::write(uint8_t)' previously defined here
virtual size_t write(uint8_t) {};
^

I've tried using VSCode. I've tried opening an issue on GitHub.

Thanks for any thoughts.

• Juraj: reinstall the library
• DavidJ: @Juraj - That works. Why?

Answer 1

The library is somehow modified. There should be no {} in virtual size_t write(uint8_t) {}; or the whole line shouldn't be in this .h.

Reinstall the library.