Static initalization of global variable?

[Rick Mann]

I keep getting bitten by things that seem obvious. I'm trying to do this:

import ...CFString;

CFStringRef kHIAboutBoxNameKey;

static
{
	kHIAboutBoxNameKey              =	CFSTR("HIAboutBoxName");
}


But GDC 0.22 complains with: "no identifier for declarator kHIAboutBoxNameKey".

I don't even know what this is telling me. I basically want a variable to hold a (constant) value that other code can use. In this case, CFStringRef is a pointer to a struct type declared in CFString. What must I do?

TIA,
Rick