[OpenSTA-devel] Re: Platform SDK

[Daniel S. <da...@Op...>]

Peter Wickersham wrote:
> I went ahead and grabbed the latest Platform SDK (you provided a
> link) and the latest STLPort.

Using the latest STLport could be trouble - although I haven't tried
doing this in a while now and maybe they've fixed some things.
Please report back on this.

There's a mail from me in the archives from back last June 19th that
discusses a few of the issues I was having.  I'd love to post a link
but the SF archives seem to be "sleeping" at the moment.  The same
mail mentions the below issue ...

> However, in reading the SDK notes, it specifically says that VC 6.0
> is not compatible with the SDK libraries.  If you try and link with
> them you get errors.  And, in fact, that is exactly what happened
> with me on the Commander project.
> Has someone here built with this combination?
> 
> --------------------Configuration: Commander - Win32 Release--------------------
> Linking...
> htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___security_cookie
> htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol @__security_check_cookie@4
> ..\bin\Release\OSCommander.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
> Error executing link.exe.
> OSCommander.exe - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

It just took me an age to work out what I did to fix this ...
What you need to do is make the earlier HtmlHelp library and include
dirs come before the Platform SDK dirs in your VS6 "Options >
Directories" dialog.  The earlier HtmlHelp stuff should come from
your "HTML Help Workshop" installation.  At least that is what I did.

This link has another idea which I haven't tried:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2005/01/27/362214.aspx

Keep us informed with how you get on,
/dan
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Daniel Sutcliffe <Da...@Op...>
  OpenSTA part-time caretaker - http://OpenSTA.org