RE: Building xfddx_3

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

No idea, why it does on your machine.  I compiled it on
Win2K using PSDK April 2000, MSVC 6.0 SP3 and Win2K DDK.
Everything went OK, as you can see the precompiled binaries
in the archive. 


I forwarded your message to Peter and he would answer it.


Suhaib

> 
> All:
> 
> I tried building xfddx_3 on NT 4.0 using MSVC++ 6.0 and ran into the
> following problem:
> 
> Compiling Precompiled Header - precomp.h for i386
> xfddx_ddi.h(87) : error C2040: 'ULONG_PTR' : 'unsigned long *' differs in
> levels of indirection from 'unsigned long'
> 
> The error line, 87, is
> typedef PULONG ULONG_PTR;
> 
> As far as I understand it, this is not the erroneous line.  Instead the
> error occurred at a place where ULONG_PTR is used.  Why does the compiler
> report this line?
> 
> My setup seems ok since I can build the framebuf sample.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -Bernd
> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Bernd
> Oliver Christiansen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:12 PM
> To: Cygwin-Xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Building xfddx_3
> 
> 
> All:
> 
> I tried building xfddx_3 on NT 4.0 using MSVC++ 6.0 and ran into the
> following problem:
> 
> Compiling Precompiled Header - precomp.h for i386
> xfddx_ddi.h(87) : error C2040: 'ULONG_PTR' : 'unsigned long *' differs in
> levels of indirection from 'unsigned long'
> 
> The error line, 87, is
> typedef PULONG ULONG_PTR;
> 
> As far as I understand it, this is not the erroneous line.  Instead the
> error occurred at a place where ULONG_PTR is used.  Why does the compiler
> report this line?
> 
> My setup seems ok since I can build the framebuf sample.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -Bernd
>