Building AudioPlugin 1_3 troubles

Windows
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I am trying to build the audio plugin demo on VC++ 2003 toolkit with codeblocks.

I get plentyfull error messages relating to WinNT.h which is weird. The kind you get when you forget to close a bracket.

I have tried importing the VS project, which first gives me an error saying JucePluginCharacteristics.h can be found. After I adjust the path, I get the WinNT errors.

Then I tried moving all the files (wrapper and demo) into a single dir and import them into a blank DLL project. This too requires some paths to be ajusted, but the build gives the exact same result.

Does anyone know what this is about?

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Now it builds all of a sudden. I have no idea why. :smiley:
I may have done something to some paths somewhere.

The dll isn’t a valid vst though. :frowning:

Edit__
Ok, tried importing again. Now it bitches about odbc32.lib missing. Why does a plugin want odbc?

Edit__
…ANNNNND i’m back with the WinNT.h errors… :cry:

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Here’s the output by the way.

[code]Project : JuceAudioPlugin Demo
Compiler : Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (called directly)
Directory : C:\HWGA\JuceAudioPlugin\demo\build\VST_Win32\

Switching to target: Release
DemoJuceFilter.cpp
JUCE! Linking to: jucelib_static.lib
JuceVstWrapper.cpp
JUCE! Linking to: jucelib_static.lib
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(894) : error C2988: unrecognizable template declaration/definition
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(894) : error C2059: syntax error : '('
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(894) : error C2090: function returns array
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(894) : error C2988: unrecognizable template declaration/definition
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(894) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(1454) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ‘;’ before '*'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2784) : warning C4164: ‘__readfsbyte’ : intrinsic function not declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2785) : warning C4164: ‘__readfsword’ : intrinsic function not declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2786) : warning C4164: ‘__readfsdword’ : intrinsic function not declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2787) : warning C4164: ‘__writefsbyte’ : intrinsic function not declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2788) : warning C4164: ‘__writefsword’ : intrinsic function not declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2789) : warning C4164: ‘__writefsdword’ : intrinsic function not declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2857) : error C3861: ‘__readfsdword’: identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2858) : error C3861: ‘__readfsdword’: identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2938) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ‘;’ before 'identifier’
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2938) : warning C4091: 'typedef ’ : ignored on left of ‘_FLOATING_SAVE_AREA’ when no variable is declared
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(2938) : fatal error C1075: end of file found before the left brace ‘{’ at ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\WinNT.h(22)’ was matched
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 1 seconds)
10 errors, 7 warnings

[/code]

Thats kind of useless though. All this tells me is that it braks down when building JuceVstWrapper.cpp.

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yeah, i know what this is-

the “unrecognizable template declaration/definition” bit is, if you look in the code it points to, around a spot where something called “T” is used in the winnt.h file. ‘T’ is at this point already defined as a juce macro. this macro is always defined when you include juce.h, and this error happens because windows.h is being included afterwards.

the options are: include windows.h BEFORE juce.h is ever included, OR hide any sign of things that may clash… the main things that cause problems are juce::Rectangle and the T macro, because those two words are used in the windows headers.

this thread discusses the problem, and has several possible fixes you can use.

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OK. Thanks.

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Your fix (from linked thread) works very well. Duplicated here for posterity:


  #undef Rectangle
  #undef T
  #define Array tempArray
  #include <windows.h>
  #undef Array
  #define T(x) L#x

I still got that darn odbc32 error though. If I just delete the lib entries, the error goes away, but I’d kind of like to know why they are there. Is it better to install odbc?

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thanks for this, but i still have problems with the Rectangle being ambiguous.

cheers

D3CK