RE: Windows build problem

["Heesterman, Peter J via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Mark,

 

What code do you have in the file, prior to the fragment you’ve copied below?

Are you #including any other files, before <windows.h> ?

 

Windows.h uses the pre-processor for … well … just about everything.

 

If you have any clashing pre-processor defines exported from an earlier #include, trouble.

 

Cheers,

 

Peter.

 

 

From: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Sent: 25 June 2020 23:47
To: 'Freddie Akeroyd - UKRI STFC' <freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk>; Heesterman, Peter J <Peter.Heesterman at ukaea.uk>
Cc: 'tech-talk' <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Windows build problem

 

Hi Freddie and Peter,

 

I am having a Windows build problem I hope you can help me with.

 

I am working on the TomoPy project which involves tomography reconstruction in Python.  Recently I built tomopy from source, which required me to update my Visual Studio 2017 Community installation because it wanted this version of the runtime.

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023

 

That worked fine, and I was able to build TomoPy with Visual Studio 2017.

 

However, now I am having problems with Visual Studio 2015 on the same machine. I can build EPICS base fine.  However, when I try to build a program of my own that uses the EPICS build system but not EPICS functions in this file I get the following error:

 

cl -EHsc -GR                -nologo -D__STDC__=0 -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE   -Ox -GL -Oy-   -W3 -w44355 -w44344        -MT -DEPICS_BUILD_DLL -TP  -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I. -I.. -I../../../include/compiler/msvc -I../../../include/os/WIN32 -I../../../include -IH:/epics/base-3.15.5/include/compiler/msvc -IH:/epics/base-3.15.5/include/os/WIN32 -IH:/epics/base-3.15.5/include        -c ../grid.cpp

grid.cpp

c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um\msxml.h(1506): error C2143: syntax error: missing ')' before 'constant'

c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um\msxml.h(1506): error C2143: syntax error: missing ';' before 'constant'

c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um\msxml.h(1506): error C2059: syntax error: 'constant'

c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um\msxml.h(1506): error C2059: syntax error: ')'

c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um\msxml.h(1506): error C2238: unexpected token(s) preceding ';'

../grid.cpp(120): warning C4244: '=': conversion from 'float' to 'long', possible loss of data

 

The code that is being compiled when it fails is this:

#ifdef _WIN32

  #include <windows.h>

  static LARGE_INTEGER countsPerSecond;

  static double getCurrentTime() {

    LARGE_INTEGER count;

    if (countsPerSecond.QuadPart == 0) QueryPerformanceFrequency(&countsPerSecond);

    QueryPerformanceCounter(&count);

    return double(count.QuadPart)/countsPerSecond.QuadPart;

  }

 

It is the include <windows.h> that is causing the problem.  If I remove it I get different problems because Windows functions are undefined.

 

The directory with the file causing the problems is c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0.  That dates from June 22, 2020, which is when I updated Visual Studio 2017.

 

Any idea how I can fix this?

 

Thanks,

Mark