I am trying to declare a static const member like this... class RemoteManager:public Runnable{ ... public: ... --> static const char MANAGEMENT_INTERFACE[] = "127.0.0.1"; ... }; but when compiling, keep getting this... g++ -g -Wno-deprecated -I /downloads/xerces/xerces-c-src_2_3_0/include/ -c remotemanager.cpp In file included from remotemanager.cpp:7: remotemanager.h:15: invalid in-class initialization of static data member of non-integral type `const char[]' make: *** [remotemanager.o] Error 1 I'm missing something small here, but I'm not seeing it. Seems to be object related because the same line of code in a simple main() function works fine. Thoughts? Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thomas Paine (paineta@xxxxxxxx) University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire