Re: VC2005 cannot build project, complains about missing items...
Alex Blekhman wrote:
Bo Berglund wrote:
I am trying to compile a code example from a hardware protection key
supplier.
The example should compile but does not on my VS2005 installation.
[...]
The first problem was that it stopped on this include line:
#include <istream.h>
saying the file could not be found.
After looking in the VC/include dir below VS2005 I found a file called
istream (no extension), which seemed to be a header file so I renamed
it to istream.h.
It seems that the example is for VC++6.0. Nowadays "xxx.h" stream
headers are deprecated and not used anymore. Streams are part of
Standard C++ Library and should be included as any other facility:
#include <istream>
It's bad idea to rename library's header file, since other components
may include it, too.
Bo/Alex:
VC6 would accept the new iostream library (or the old one, provided you
did not mix them). So this is not an issue of "the example is for VC6",
but rather "this code is obsolete, and should not compile".
Ask the supplier for a corrected version of the code. It is very easy to
write code that will compile on both VC6 and VC8.
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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