C2280: “attempting to reference deleted function” for copy constructor, CC248 “'operator ='cannot access private member declared in class” (Cocos2dx)

Question

I have a question regarding creating a 2D vector of objects during instantiation of an object.

Background: I have a class called Dungeon which needs a 2D vector of Tile objects. (Vector because I can resize since until instantiation I don't know the dimensions of the vector.)

Error:

Error   C2280   'Tile &Tile::operator =(const Tile &)': attempting to reference a deleted function  MyCppGame   c:\users\dante\git\yshacpp\mycppgame\classes\tile.cpp   18  

UPDATE: Now I am receiving Error C2248 'cocos2d::Sprite::operator =': cannot access private member declared in class 'cocos2d::Sprite' -- Could it be a cocos2D-X issue with Sprite's operator= ? Putting Sprite declarations in public didn't help but I'm suspecting something with cocos2D-X....

My suspicion (revised): cocos2d::Sprite* floor, item, overlay, ceiling; inside my Tile class seems to cause this error to be thrown.

What I've tried: Writing my own copy constructor for Tile.

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Maybe my suspicions are wrong, but if anyone could let me know why this is happening I'd be grateful!

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CPP file of class (Tile)

#include "Tile.h"

Tile::Tile()  : block(false), hasCharacter(false) { /* Nothing */ }

Header file of class Tile

#ifndef __TILE_H__
#define __TILE_H__

#include ...

class Tile {
protected:
    bool deepCopy(const Tile& copyTile) {
        bool result = false;
        if (&copyTile != this) {
            this->character = copyTile.character;
            this->floor = copyTile.floor;
            this->item = copyTile.item;
            this->overlay = copyTile.overlay;
            this->ceiling = copyTile.ceiling;
            result = true;
        }
        return result;
    }

    cocos2d::Sprite* floor, item, overlay, ceiling;

// private: // nothing atm
public:
    bool block, hasCharacter;
    Character character;

    Tile();
    Tile(const Tile& copyTile) { deepCopy(copyTile); };
    Tile& operator=(const Tile& copyTile) { deepCopy(copyTile); return *this; }
    //~Tile();
};

#endif // __TILE_H__

Answer 1

This time around I noticed that cocos2d classes were acting up in Visual Studio (Community 2015), so I confirmed that import "cocos2d.h" was not working. That turned out to be the problem.

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So to recap, I made the following changes:

1) Made sure my IDE was including the header file properly (Visual Studio Community 2015)

2) Edited Tile.h :

class Tile { ...
private:
    cocos2d::Sprite* floor;
    cocos2d::Sprite* item;
    cocos2d::Sprite* overlay;
    cocos2d::Sprite* ceiling
...
}

3) Rewrote my deep copy

and then it worked.

It's a strange situation but for what it's worth, I removed my Deep Copy to see what would happen and it works without it. If it's best practice to have it, I will keep it there....

Thanks to everyone who took their time out to comment since it helped clarify a lot of mistakes that I was making.

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PS If anyone thinks this question should be deleted as it is misleading please let me know.