C++ & SDK

C++ & SDK

• Gaj

  Thanks..That probably works, but im still not having luck. Back to VB.net I think
  
  

• parmas

   Hi C.T!

  
  I have 'Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows XP SP2' and 'Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2' installed. I have also created a dir in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC" called 'PlatformSDK' which has the Bin, Include and Lib folders in it.
  

  This is the "wrong" SDK... with this you can only develop apps for XP-SP2!
  You should download the newest (uniformed) PSDK:
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=D8EECD75-1FC4-49E5-BC66-9DA2B03D9B92
  

  Now how do i make a native program, not complied in .NET
  
  If i go to File|New|Project| Win32.... I can only select console application, windows application is greyed out.
  
  

  Create a "console-app" and the go to the linker settings (Project|Properties|Linker|General) and select "Subsystem: Windows".
  

  Do i need to regester the PSDK directorys or set up some paths
  

  No, it is already registred by default.
  
  ---
  Greetings
    Jochen
  
  PS: Please mark the best replies as anserws!
  
  

• Alex N. Winokuroff

  Ahhh.... this is want you wanted!
  No you create a Win32-App (no console app)!
  Therefor you need to replace the console-App entry "main" with the correcponding windows-entry: "WinMain"!
  
  See: WinMain
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowreference/windowfunctions/winmain.asp
  
  For an example see: Using Messages and Message Queues
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/messagesandmessagequeues/usingmessagesandmessagequeues.asp
  
  

• The_Landlord

  Ok thanks, now it work well!
  
  Bye
  Paolo
  
  

• BruceVik

  Thanks Jochen Kalmbach.. I was confused about the SDK's - but will that version still run on normal Windows XP
  
  
  
  

• Beto

  By default the project setting is UNICODE!
  Therefor you should use the T-Macros!!! (TCHAR ...)
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_generic.2d.text_mappings_in_tchar..h.asp
  
  Your example should look like:
  #include <windows.h>
  #pragma comment(lib, "user32.lib")
  #include <tchar.h>

  int APIENTRY _tWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                       HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                       LPTSTR    lpCmdLine,
                       int       nCmdShow)
  {
    MessageBox(NULL, _T("Ciao"), _T("MsgBox") , MB_OK);
    return 0;
  }
  
  
  Or you can switch to ANSI (or Mutli-Byte-Character set): Project|Settings|General: Character encoding
  
  

  
  
  

• Geek Squad

  Which version do you mean
  PSDK XP-SP2: Designed only for XP-SP2 development!
  PSDK W2003SP1: Designed to be used for *all* Windows OSs.
  
  Greetings
    Jochen
  
  

• Proximus140753

  Ok.. downloaded and set up that.. Followed the linker steps.. now i get:
  
  Linking...
  MSVCRTD.lib(crtexew.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartup
  Debug\test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
  
  
  

• IntMain

  I've installed the PSDK W2003SP1 but I can't compile the following simple code:
  
  #include <windows.h>

  int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,LPSTR lpCmdLine,int nCmdShow){

  MessageBox(NULL,"Ciao","MsgBox",0);
  return 0;

  }
  
  The build log file is:
  
  

  Build Log

  Build started: Project: prova, Configuration: Debug|Win32

  Command Lines

  Creating temporary file "c:\Documents and Settings\Paolo\Desktop\Prove C++\Prova\prova\prova\Debug\RSP00001B28041536.rsp" with contents [ /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_CONSOLE" /D "_UNICODE" /D "UNICODE" /Gm /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /GS- /Fo"Debug\\" /Fd"Debug\vc80.pdb" /W3 /c /Wp64 /ZI /TP ".\main.cpp" ] Creating command line "cl.exe @"c:\Documents and Settings\Paolo\Desktop\Prove C++\Prova\prova\prova\Debug\RSP00001B28041536.rsp" /nologo /errorReportrompt"

  Output Window

  Compiling... main.cpp c:\documents and settings\paolo\desktop\prove c++\prova\prova\prova\main.cpp(4) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char ' to 'LPCWSTR' Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

  Results

  Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Paolo\Desktop\Prove C++\Prova\prova\prova\Debug\BuildLog.htm" prova - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

  
  
  In VC++ 6.0 the same code work great!!
  What's wrong
  
  Thanks Paolo
  
  P.S. My OS is MS Windows XP Home SP2

  
  
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