Problems with inlining and C++11 incompatibility

[wild swan]

I have this code here in the private section of my struct:

static inline std::map<sv, u8> scoreboard {
  { "test1", 0 },
  { "test2", 1 },
  // you get the point
};

This works completely fine, but I'm currently making a C++ library with the intention to work for C++11. But when i compile with that C++ standard, it issues a warning about "inline variables are a C++17 extension". So I tried removing the inline keyword, and now it gives me an error saying: "non-const static data member must be initialized out of line".

I have absolutely no idea what that means or what I should do to fix this. If anybody could give me a hand then that would be greatly appreciated.

[exotic owl]

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[wild swan]

for example:

;compile c++ -std=c++11

#include <bits/stdc++.h>

struct test {
private:
  static inline std::map<const char*, std::uint8_t> map_example {
    { "test1", 0 },
    { "test2", 0 }
  };

public:
  static void add() {
    map_example["test1"] = 1;
  }
};

int main() {
  test::add();
  return 0;
}

[devout granite]

Compiler Output

<source>:5:10: warning: inline variables are only available with '-std=c++17' or '-std=gnu++17' [-Wc++17-extensions]
    5 |   static inline std::map<const char*, std::uint8_t> map_example {
      |          ^~~~~~

kr.nl#0000 | 38ms | c++ | x86-64 gcc 13.2 | godbolt.org

[wild swan]

TL;DR i just need to find a way to get rid of this warning

solved my issue, i just had to define the variable outside of the struct with a declaration within a struct

!solved