Problem Unable to build DLLs in Orbiter 2010

[Columbia42]

When I try to build a DLL out of any of the Orbiter SDK projects (or my own projects), the build log says that it can't open a file called 'windows.h' and that there's no such file or directory and that Orbitersdk/include/OrbiterAPI needs to open it. All of the stuff I made myself worked in Orbiter 2006 but now it comes up with the above error message. Is there something you have to do differently when creating Orbiter 2010 projects as opposed to Orbiter 2006 projects and if so, why were the SDK files not modified accordingly?

BTW, I am using VC++ 2008 as a compiler.

 

[Bj]

When I try to build a DLL out of any of the Orbiter SDK projects (or my own projects), the build log says that it can't open a file called 'windows.h' and that there's no such file or directory and that Orbitersdk/include/OrbiterAPI needs to open it. All of the stuff I made myself worked in Orbiter 2006 but now it comes up with the above error message. Is there something you have to do differently when creating Orbiter 2010 projects as opposed to Orbiter 2006 projects and if so, why were the SDK files not modified accordingly?

BTW, I am using VC++ 2008 as a compiler.

You might have to get the windows SDK
http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Free_Compiler_Setup#Get_the_Windows_SDK

Have you followed the free compiler setup on ShuttlePB?

 

[Columbia42]

When trying to free up space on my hard drive I accidentally deleted the Windows SDK. Reinstalling it fixed the problem.

 

[Director]

Problem Unable to build DLLs in Orbiter 2010

The problem is non trivial.

Here are some blog links discussing the phenomenon.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowssdk/archive/2008/02/22/using-visual-c-2008-express-with-the-windows-sdk-detailed-version.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowssdk/...dk-config-tool-appears-to-work-but-fails.aspx

Here is a forum discussion :

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/2bfed529-fb6d-48a3-ad48-fc6301486646/