V3 plugin compilation in VC++ 2005 Express Edition

[inspiria]

Hi,

I just trided to build your example plugin in VC++ 2005 EE + WinSDK

Problems I encountered were as follows:
1. You use atlbase.h in your project, that requires atlthug.lib (not present in Express Edition) - I solved (I think:-) ) this problem using solutions from http://www.mozillapl.org/forum/about-21894.html - section about modifying (modifications needed:

|. Go to the \include\atl folder under the PSDK directory, and:
|* in atlbase.h around line 300 change the block around "#pragma include |atlthunk.lib" to:
|
|[...]
|};
|#pragma pack(pop)
|
|/*
|PVOID __stdcall __AllocStdCallThunk(VOID);
|VOID __stdcall __FreeStdCallThunk(PVOID);
|
|#define AllocStdCallThunk() __AllocStdCallThunk()
|#define FreeStdCallThunk(p) __FreeStdCallThunk(p)
|
|#pragma comment(lib, "atlthunk.lib")
|*/
|
|// workaround for not having atlthunk.lib in PSDK or VC++ 2005 Express |Edition
|#define AllocStdCallThunk() HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(),0,sizeof
|(_stdcallthunk))
|#define FreeStdCallThunk(p) HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, p)
|
|#elif defined (_M_AMD64)
|#pragma pack(push,2)
|[...]
|
|* in atlwin.h around line 1753, replace "for(i = 0;" with "for(int i = 0;"
|Now the PSDK should be fixed in a way that we can build ATL stuff using it. |Unfortunately MFC still doesn't work (see below).
)

2. Second problem: during building the callDLL I get this error, and have no idea what the problem is and how to solve it:

------ Build started: Project: CallDLL, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
Linking...
StdAfx.obj : warning LNK4229: invalid directive '/FILEALIGN:0x200' encountered; ignored
StdAfx.obj : warning LNK4229: invalid directive '/IGNORE:4078' encountered; ignored
Creating library .\Release/CallDLL.lib and object .\Release/CallDLL.exp
NC_Plugin.lib(NC_Plugin.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void * __cdecl On_NC_Construct(unsigned short * const)" (?On_NC_Construct@@YAPAXQAG@Z) referenced in function _OnLoad@4
.\Release/CallDLL.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Build log was saved at "file://c:\cd_record\CD_licence\SWFStudio_Inspiria_license\examples\plugin_develop\CallDLL\Release\BuildLog.htm"
CallDLL - 2 error(s), 2 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Any Idea, Maybe it is still the problem of Express Edition. Do you think Full version of VC++ 2005 will help?

And maybe is it possible to get Plugin example especially for VC 2005?

regards,
Daniel (Inspiria)

[AGo]

At least it builds fine with VC++ 6, haven´t tried the newer version, though.

I plan to switch next week, I´ll let you know if you do not find a solution in the meantime.

[Dan]

inspira,

Save yourself some grief. Don't include atlbase.h. It was there strictly for the definition of BSTR (VC6), which is now treated as an internal type (see Solution Properties / Configuration Properties / C++ / Language / Treat wchar_t as Built-in type).

The unresolved external implies that your project is missing a line of code. Is there an IMPLEMENT_PLUGIN(class_name) in your code?


Dan

[inspiria]

Originally Posted by Dan

inspira,

Save yourself some grief. Don't include atlbase.h. It was there strictly for the definition of BSTR (VC6), which is now treated as an internal type (see Solution Properties / Configuration Properties / C++ / Language / Treat wchar_t as Built-in type).

The unresolved external implies that your project is missing a line of code. Is there an IMPLEMENT_PLUGIN(class_name) in your code?


Dan

Thanks a lot! The problem was in conflict of the types. Temporary I switched "Treat wchar_t as Built-in type" off and the project was built. I will try to remove the inclusion on altbase.h (the first attempt finished in tons of error messages) and (if successfull) I will post te entire project - maybe someone will find it usable.