Microsoft & Visual C++ Express Edition woes...

[RustyNail]

Here we go...
After installing Windows XP, Visual C++ Express Edition, Platform SDK, then having to rip out my hair to get my modem to work (windows refused to install the proper driver, and its own kinda didn't do the job...) registering C++ Express, being unable to access the benefits site and all...

After all of that happened, and I finally decided to test Visual C++ EE:

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
	std::cout << "Hello Microsoft... Why must you make such sucky products?" << std::endl;
	return 0;
}

I get 102 errors. ==;; ==;;
Will Microsoft ever try to help its users?!?!?!?
Why are the Libs that IT supplied so screwed up?
all of the errors are either in cstdio or cstdlib...
And all of them are like this
" Error 101 error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':' "
Any suggestions on what to do?



And please, forgive me for all of these repeated posts on the same topic...
I'm a n00b and cannot help it... I want to change, but it is difficult...

[vitek]

Usually fixing the first few errors will eliminate many of the following ones. I can't imagine why that code would be giving you fits, but if you want actual help, it would be useful if you provided the exact text of the first few [10 or so] error messages and maybe the source code with line numbers.

Travis

[RustyNail]

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Error	1	error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	25
Error	2	error C2059: syntax error : ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	25
Error	3	error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	25
Error	4	error C2059: syntax error : ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	25
Error	5	error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	25
Error	6	error C2059: syntax error : ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	25
Error	7	error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	26
Error	8	error C2059: syntax error : ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	26
Error	9	error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	26
Error	10	error C2059: syntax error : ':'	f:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdio	26

10 errors....
And (beginning at line 25) file cstdio:

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using ::size_t; using ::fpos_t; using ::FILE;
using ::clearerr; using ::fclose; using ::feof;
using ::ferror; using ::fflush; using ::fgetc;
using ::fgetpos; using ::fgets; using ::fopen;
using ::fprintf; using ::fputc; using ::fputs;
using ::fread; using ::freopen; using ::fscanf;
using ::fseek; using ::fsetpos; using ::ftell;
using ::fwrite; using ::getc; using ::getchar;
using ::gets; using ::perror;
using ::putc; using ::putchar;
using ::printf; using ::puts; using ::remove;
using ::rename; using ::rewind; using ::scanf;
using ::setbuf; using ::setvbuf; using ::sprintf;
using ::sscanf; using ::tmpfile; using ::tmpnam;
using ::ungetc; using ::vfprintf; using ::vprintf;
using ::vsprintf;
_STD_END

[someone153]

Try this:

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() 
{ 
	cout << "Hello Microsoft... Why must you make such sucky products?";
	cout << "\n";
	cout << "\n";

	system("PAUSE");
}

I hope that helps.

[RustyNail]

Hmmm....
I'm quite sure that that is not the problem,
I think it's something related to the includes...
But then again, i'm not the best person to ask about this...

Any ideas?

Another fact:
Before installing WinXP, on Win2K,
Code::Blocks with MinGW, Borland, and VCToolKit2003 had the same problems...

EDIT: Hmm.... It seems that only "#include <iostream>" gives errors...
other headers do not give any errors...

[laforced]

Remove the space in the scope resoultion operator

[RustyNail]

It's not that...
The build does not get past the line:

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#include <iostream> 

EDIT:

Just installed Dev-Cpp & the same program compiled without any errors...
Probably the same if I install Code::Blocks and MinGW...
So, for me this is isolated to VC2005Express... hmmm...
There is something wrong with the PSDK or VC's own built-in libs...

[vitek]

I'm assuming that you are compiling from within the IDE instead of at the command line. I also don't have access to the top of the VC8 iostream header, so this is all guesswork...

What happens if you create an Empty Win32 project and add the code there? If that doesn't work, you might check to see how many files named iostream there are on your system. If there are more than one, there could be a problem with the wrong one getting used.

Did you follow the directions for installing the PSDK?

[RustyNail]

If I create an Empty Win32 Console Application, and add the code there,
I get the same errors...

I have 8 different copies of iostream, but only 3 of them are in directories that are listed in VC's directories... And one of them is iostream.h, which is not used...
so, I have one here:

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F:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\

and one here:

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F:\ProgrammingLibs\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\crt\

and since the second directory is listed first, I assume that it is the one being used...

And I DID follow the directions Micro$oft gave for installing...

[vitek]

You might try putting in F:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\ first in the include order. The instructions aren't clear about it, but it is something you could try.

[3ddev]

I think the Visual Express Edition expired on May 6, 2006. After this date, certain features would become disabled. Within a few months they wouldn't even let you compile a program. Leastways, that is what my version of the Express Edition liscense agreement stated. Microsoft doensn't disclose that when you download it, but about halfway through the liscense agreement it is hidden away. The due date has oviously expired; maybe all your errors are because the program compiling functions are diabled?

[vitek]

I really doubt it is that. It is my understanding that many of the guys here are using VS8 express with Irrlicht. There would many posts about this same exact problem.

I did some searching and it looks like the VS8 express beta 2 expired May 1, 2006. I don't think anyone here is using the beta anymore...

[zenaku]

The site appears down at the moment, but here's the google cache of it:

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:E3B ... =clnk&cd=1

I installed c++ 2005 express, the platform SDK, followed the instructions above, and your program compiles without errors for me.

I installed c++ express from the manual install ISO's

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expre ... fault.aspx

If you use the ISO you don't have to register with MSN or any of that crap.

[RustyNail]

Vewy, Vwey Strange....
Before, when using Code::Blocks on Win2K with 2003ToolKit and the same PSDK, I recieved the same errors, so I think that this has something to do with the includes in that...
I'll try to re-order the stuff, speaking of that, where was the PSDK in your includes directories? At the top, or the bottom?
And I did use the ISO's...

[RustyNail]

Okay... I feel vewy, vewy dum-dum....
At the Microsoft forums they told me that it was all with the extension of the file... it was ".c" which compiles as a C file, and that does not support "#include <iostream>"; I needed to change the extension to ".cpp" and voila! everything worked....
I feel vewy dum-dum...