'const' qualifiers cannot be applied to 'std::vector

I had a c++11 project on linux where i used the following signature which fails to compile on linux but compiles on windows

Error:

error: 'const' qualifiers cannot be applied to 'std::vector<long unsigned int>&'

error: 'const' qualifiers cannot be applied to 'std::map<long unsigned int, long unsigned int>&'

Function was

    bool debugGlobalDs(std::vector<size_t> & const elementIds ,
 std::map<long unsigned int, long unsigned int>& const mapElementIdToGlobalIndex)
    {
    ....
    return true
    }

Why cant I use const qualifier here? Once I remove it, it compiles fine on Linux too.