Excessive warning messages Visual Toolkit 2003 PlatformSDK

[dwmcqueen]

I searched and couldn't find any info.  But when I install the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 and the PlatformSDK, the compile has quite a few warning messages (similar to _WIN_NT not defined, I recall) related to code in the PlatformSDK.  Is there anyway to supress these messages or address them?

[Vampyre_Dark]

This has to do with your own code, not C::B. I get no warnings or problems with 2003 tk out of the box. Unless you didn't include the right paths to your platform SDK in the C::B compiler options.

[Biplab]

Hi,

I am also facing similar problem. I have installed Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK and Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. It throws me a lot of std::ios and related errors.

Are they incompatible with each other? 

[dwmcqueen]

Maybe it is my code, although MinGW doesn't give the same warnings.  And my code is so basic, I am not sure why it generates more warning messages than actual lines of code (just a basic winsock operation).  Some of the warnings make no sense (like _WIN_NT_ not defined).  I'll post my project and the exact warnings tonight.

[dwmcqueen]

Here are some of my messages :

:: === NetCommRedo, Release ===
c:\Projects\NetCommRedo\main.h:7: warning C4668: 'BUILDING_DLL' is not defined as a preprocessor macro, replacing with '0' for '#if/#elif'
C:\PlatformSDK\Include\BaseTsd.h:98: warning C4668: '__midl' is not defined as a preprocessor macro, replacing with '0' for '#if/#elif'
C:\PlatformSDK\Include\WinNT.h:1182: warning C4668: '_WIN32_WINNT' is not defined as a preprocessor macro, replacing with '0' for '#if/#elif'
C:\PlatformSDK\Include\WinNT.h:1443: warning C4668: '_WIN32_WINNT' is not defined as a preprocessor macro, replacing with '0' for '#if/#elif'
C:\PlatformSDK\Include\WinNT.h:1443: warning C4668: '_WIN32_FUSION' is not defined as a preprocessor macro, replacing with '0' for '#if/#elif'
C:\PlatformSDK\Include\WinNT.h:5280: warning C4820: '_SECURITY_QUALITY_OF_SERVICE' : '2' bytes padding added after member '_SECURITY_QUALITY_OF_SERVICE::EffectiveOnly'
C:\PlatformSDK\Include\WinNT.h:5291: warning C4820: '_SE_IMPERSONATION_STATE' : '2' bytes padding added after member '_SE_IMPERSONATION_STATE::EffectiveOnly'

This continues on for 838 warnings.  My code is relatively simple, but I think I must have a configuration set wrong.  I am building  dll

[stahta01]

I searched and couldn't find any info.  But when I install the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 and the PlatformSDK, the compile has quite a few warning messages (similar to _WIN_NT not defined, I recall) related to code in the PlatformSDK.  Is there anyway to supress these messages or address them?

Which PlatformSDK did you install?
Which OS are you running?

The way to address the issues is to define the correct values in most cases.

From mingw include/w32api.h

Code

/* Use these values to set _WIN32_WINDOWS and WINVER to your minimum support 
 * level */
#define Windows95    0x0400
#define Windows98    0x0410
#define WindowsME    0x0500

/* Use these values to set _WIN32_WINNT and WINVER to your mimimum support 
 * level. */
#define WindowsNT4   0x0400
#define Windows2000  0x0500
#define WindowsXP    0x0501
#define Windows2003  0x0502
#define WindowsVista 0x0600

/* Use these values to set _WIN32_IE to your minimum support level */
#define IE3	0x0300
#define IE301	0x0300
#define IE302	0x0300
#define IE4	0x0400
#define IE401	0x0401
#define IE5	0x0500
#define IE5a	0x0500
#define IE5b	0x0500
#define IE501	0x0501
#define IE55	0x0501
#define IE56	0x0560
#define IE6	0x0600
#define IE601	0x0601
#define IE602	0x0603
#define IE7	0x0700

Maybe it is my code, although MinGW doesn't give the same warnings.  And my code is so basic, I am not sure why it generates more warning messages than actual lines of code (just a basic winsock operation).  Some of the warnings make no sense (like _WIN_NT_ not defined).  I'll post my project and the exact warnings tonight.

Note: minGW defines a default value for some of these things if the user does NOT define one; they tend to set it to the max value listed in the above w32api.h code.

If I have an issue under minGW, I set the value to what I have or to a lower value that the code is supposed to support. In other words, if the application requires IE6 and I have IE7 I set _WIN32_IE=0x0600 this should allow people using IE6 to be able to compile the code. Most of the time I just set _WIN32_IE=0x0400 because most code seems to require at least IE 4.0 and it is a good default when compiling others people code.

Tim S

[dwmcqueen]

I am running XP SP2.  Installed the 2003 PlatformSDK (couldn't find an older one).

I will check the values - thanks!