How to implement Inheritance: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef struct

Question

I have :

my_entity.h

typedef struct {

    long _id;
    char *_myEntityType;
    char *_myEntitySubType;

    long _myEntityGUID;
    long _myEntityOwnerGUID;
    long _myEntityContainerGUID;

} MyEntity;

typedef struct {

    MyEntity *_myEntity;

} MyContainerEntity;  

I get the following error when I try running the project:

/my_entity.h: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef struct MyContainerEntity MyContainerEntity’
 } MyContainerEntity;
   ^

What am I missing, or doing wrong?

Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

I used a simpler approach (avoid doing multiple steps in a single line with ths structs) and had no problem with the following files:

my_entity.h

struct EntityStruct {
    long _id;
    char *_myEntityType;
    char *_myEntitySubType;
    long _myEntityGUID;
    long _myEntityOwnerGUID;
    long _myEntityContainerGUID;
} ;

typedef struct EntityStruct MyEntity ;
typedef struct {
    MyEntity *pointer2MyEntity;
} MyContainerEntity;

main.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include "my_entity.h"

int main()
{
    MyEntity firstEntity;
    MyContainerEntity containerEntity;
    containerEntity.pointer2MyEntity = &firstEntity;
    return 0;
}

Alternate content for my_entity.h

typedef struct EntityStruct {
   long _id;
   char *_myEntityType;
   char *_myEntitySubType;
   long _myEntityGUID;
   long _myEntityOwnerGUID;
   long _myEntityContainerGUID;
} MyEntity ;

typedef struct {
   MyEntity *pointer2MyEntity;
} MyContainerEntity; 

OK , I admit I got it wrong, I thought it was necessary to have a separate distinct name for the struct, but even the code that the OP gives works (I did not test it initially, because I went up editing it and tested my version only). So since he does not give full files for the .h and for main(), I guess we cannot help him.