Re: [ft] Using Freetype2 with Visual C++ 6.0

[David Turner]

Hello Tom,

I believe the problem is due to a bug in Visual C++'s implementation
of pre-compiled headers. Simply disable this feature, this should
build perfectly.

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:25:15 -0600, "Tom Milford" <address@hidden> said:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble using Freetype 2 with Visual C++ 6.0.  Is this
> compiler 
> still supported?
> 
> The problem is using #define's in include statements.  See below for an 
> example.  I've confirmed that this is a problem on Visual C++ 6.0 with a 
> small program, also below.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tom
> 
> /***************************************/
> /* compiler output */
> 
> Compiling Glyph Keeper / static Allegro with MSVC 7.1
>         cl /nologo /W3 /O2 /MD -DALLEGRO_STATICLINK -DGK_NO_LEGACY 
> -DGLYPH_TARGE
> T=GLYPH_TARGET_ALLEGRO /c /Fo"obj\gkallegs.obj" src\glyph.c
> glyph.c
> C:\PROGRA~1\MIAF9D~1\VC98\INCLUDE\freetype/internal/ftobjs.h(32) : error 
> C2006:
> #include expected a filename, found 'identifier'
> C:\PROGRA~1\MIAF9D~1\VC98\INCLUDE\freetype/internal/ftobjs.h(33) : error 
> C2006:
> #include expected a filename, found 'identifier'
> C:\PROGRA~1\MIAF9D~1\VC98\INCLUDE\freetype/internal/ftobjs.h(34) : error 
> C2006:
> #include expected a filename, found 'identifier'
> C:\PROGRA~1\MIAF9D~1\VC98\INCLUDE\freetype/internal/ftobjs.h(35) : error 
> C2006:
> #include expected a filename, found 'identifier'
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /***************************************/
> /* test program, built from hello world command line template of visual
> C++ 
> 6.0  */
> 
> 
> /* main.c */
> 
> #include "include_test.h"
> #include STD_AFX_H
> 
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>       printf("Hello World!\n");
>       return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> /* include_test.h */
> #define STD_AFX_H "stdafx.h"
> 
> /* compiler output: */
> Compiling...
> include_test.cpp
> c:\documents and settings\tom 
> milford\desktop\envision\include_test\include_test.cpp(5) : error C2006: 
> #include expected a filename, found 'identifier'
> c:\documents and settings\tom 
> milford\desktop\envision\include_test\include_test.cpp(5) : fatal error 
> C1903: unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation
> 
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