Windows compile error

[panxpress]

Greetings,

I am trying to develop a cross-platorm application using Poco. I did a basic project setup on linux and compiled it. It works fine.

Now when I used the same files on windows, I am getting the following error in Poco:

includepocomutex_win32.h(89) : error C3861: 'TryEnterCriticalSection': identifier not found

Is this a known error. Is there a way I can fix this?

Thanks,

[panxpress]

> I am trying to develop a cross-platorm application using Poco. I did a basic project setup on linux and compiled it. It works fine.
>
> Now when I used the same files on windows, I am getting the following error in Poco:
>
> includepocomutex_win32.h(89) : error C3861: 'TryEnterCriticalSection': identifier not found


OK, I found a solution. I was not using pre compiled headers. I added precompiled header and the first thing I added was

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
# define _WIN32_WINNT 0x400
#endif

This solved the error.

[Standard]

> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to develop a cross-platorm application using Poco. I did a basic project setup on linux and compiled it. It works fine.
>
> Now when I used the same files on windows, I am getting the following error in Poco:
>
> includepocomutex_win32.h(89) : error C3861: 'TryEnterCriticalSection': identifier not found
>
> Is this a known error. Is there a way I can fix this?
>
> Thanks,

Is that the only error? It sounds like you're lack of the _WIN32_WINNT macro definition which should be greater or equal to 0x0400 since TryEnterCriticalSection support start with Windows 2000

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686857(VS.85).aspx

Regards,
Standard

Edit: well I was a little bit slow with my reply ^^

[Standard]

Cool you figured it out!

:)

Greetings,
Standard

[alex]

> This solved the error.

It should build without any interventions, though. What version of POCO/Visual Studio are you using?