[SOLVED] v8 RC6 wchar.h + windows.h FILE issues?

[DYSEQTA]

Since installing RC6 of PellesC v8 I have been having issues when wchar.h and windows.h are used together. Here is and example compile error I am seeing when wchar.h is included before windows.h:

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C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2095: Expected type for parameter 4, but found 'FILE'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2048: Undeclared identifier 'FILE' (did you mean 'HFILE'?).
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2095: Expected type for parameter 3, but found 'FILE'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2048: Undeclared identifier 'FILE' (did you mean 'HFILE'?).


If I include wchar.h after windows.h I get:

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C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2095: Expected type for parameter 4, but found 'FILE'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): warning #2099: Missing type specifier; assuming 'int'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2001: Syntax error: expected ')' but found '*'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2001: Syntax error: expected ';' but found ')'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2095: Expected type for parameter 3, but found 'FILE'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): warning #2099: Missing type specifier; assuming 'int'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2001: Syntax error: expected ')' but found '*'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2001: Syntax error: expected ';' but found ')'


Both __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__ and __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__ are defined as part of my flags passed to pocc.

At first I thought it was me and I had introduced some bug in my code somewhere but I have been pulling my hair out for many hours now and as long as wchar.h and windows.h are in the same compile I get this issue so I am thinking its not me after all

Any ideas?

[DYSEQTA]

I knew the moment I posted here that  I would finally sort it out...

I needed the /Zx compiler option.

[DYSEQTA]

Actually I take that back. I just added wchar.h into a source file from the glfw library to get at wcslen(), which is not in string.h as it is in other std library implementations and up pops that error again:

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C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2095: Expected type for parameter 4, but found 'FILE'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(267): error #2048: Undeclared identifier 'FILE' (did you mean 'HFILE'?).
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2095: Expected type for parameter 3, but found 'FILE'.
C:\PellesC\Include\wchar.h(268): error #2048: Undeclared identifier 'FILE' (did you mean 'HFILE'?).


Has something been broken in wchar.h or windows.h between RC5 and RC6?

EDIT: Further to the above this error only occurs with __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__ defined.

[JohnF]

wchar.h uses struct FILE if you define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__,
so include stdio.h first.

John

[DYSEQTA]

Thanks John, you're a genius, or should I say that I am not

[JohnF]

Yes, well I don't think the word genius fits well with the view of myself.

John