trouble compiling liblwres on Windows (BIND 9.3.0)

[Danny Mayer]

At 05:37 AM 1/21/2005, Stefan Puiu wrote:

>Danny Mayer wrote:
>
>>At 05:18 PM 1/20/2005, Mark Andrews wrote:
>>VC++ V6 do not include the necessary files and you need to get them
>>from the SDK. V7 (aka .NET) includes these files and you don't need
>>the SDK for them. For V6 you need the following 4 files from the SDK:
>>iphlpapi.h
>>iptypes.h
>>ipexport.h
>>iphlpapi.lib
>>
>>If you don't want to install the SDK you can just copy these files. I just
>>put the headers into the VC98/Include directory and the link library into
>>the VC98/Lib directory. After that everything builds.
>>
>
>Not quite. The compiler would choke on iphlpapi.h with the following error:
>
>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
>error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'pStats'
>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
>error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'pStats'
>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
>error C2059: syntax error : ';'
>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
>error C2059: syntax error : ','
>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(185) : 
>error C2059: syntax error : ')'
>
>The line that was causing the error has something like:
>
>    OUT PMIB_ICMP_EX    pStats,
>
>with PMIB_ICMP_EX not being defined anywhere. I checked the SDK and it 
>seems to be defined in Iprtrmib.h; that file already exists in 
>VC98\Include, so I kept a copy of the old one and overwrote it with the 
>one from the SDK. Now liblwres builds just fine, and so does named (and 
>the other binaries).

Well I used an older version of the SDK. If you install the SDK you don't have
this problem. I just told you what I did since I didn't want to install a large
kit on a system which was short on space.

Danny