DEFINE_GUID()

[czerny]

Hallo,

I would like to use the macro DEFINE_GUID() but have some problems doing this.

This macro is defined in <guiddef.h>

In a header file of mine I use

#include <initguid.h>

which himself defines INITGUID and should include guiddef.h

#define INITGUID
#include <guiddef.h>

But <guiddef.h> is included prior of this with <windows.h> and is included only once.

So, what is the correct methode to use the DEFINE_GUID() macro?

czerny

[Stefan Pendl]

Is the order of the includes as follows

1) #include <initguid.h>
2) #include <windows.h>

This could solve your problem.

[Synfire]

Are you getting errors? You shouldn't...

You can order those any way you want. The reason being because of standard header notation:

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#ifndef _HEADERNAME_H
#define _HEADERNAME_H

/* Your header contents here. */

#endif //_HEADERNAME_H

This notation is used throughout POC's headers (as well as most C compilers headers). This prevents the compiler from inserting the contents of a header file twice in the event it gets #included'd twice. Like in your instance. So if you wanted you could use:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <initguid.h>

or as Stefan stated:

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#include <initguid.h>
#include <windows.h>

And it wouldn't really matter, the first call to #include would add the contents of the file and the second would not because _GUIDDEF_H would already be defined and #ifndef _GUIDDEF_H would fail.

[czerny]

Is the order of the includes as follows

1) #include <initguid.h>
2) #include <windows.h>

This could solve your problem.

Yes! You are right!
initguid.h MUST included before windows.h

Thank you

Czerny

[Synfire]

Actually looking at the headers Stefan's right. My bad, I was confused at what you were asking.