Re: Newbie: MIDL1003 error in using midl.exe
That's not the way to specify multiple include directories. You
need to pass them along with a separate /I switch for each directory.
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Alexander Nickolov
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"Sandeep Srinivasa" <sandys@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi guys,
I am a first time COM programmer and am trying to work my
way through a tutorial (http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/COM-Tech/activex/
tutorials/article.php/c5567/)
When I use midl.exe on the IDL file (through the command-line, not
through VC IDE yet), I get the foll. error:
midl : command line error MIDL1003 : error returned by the C
preprocessor (-1073741515)
I then looked up the documentation and tried the /I switch
midl /I "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include;C:
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\sys;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\msclr;C:\Program Files
\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\msclr\com;C:\Program Files
\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\CodeAnalysis;C:\Program Files
\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Include" IAdd.idl
but I still get the same error:
I have cl.exe in my path and I can do "cl IAdd.idl" without any
problems.
any clues??
thanks
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