I am trying to update a Visual C++ VS 2010 project to VS 2012. I now longer have access to reinstall VS2010 from the MSDN, so I am installing what my college has made available on the Dreamspark website, which is VS2012.
After installation I tried to build the project, and I received over 100 errors but the first one was this:
error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDKDDKVer.h': No such file or directory
I fixed that error by following this post, 2nd answer since there was no VS2010 installed on the computer except for two Redistributables, for x64, x86 which were uninstalled: Fresh installation of VS 2012 will not build default console application: Missing SDKDDKVer.h (and stdio.h / CRT)
and:
- Removed Visual Studio 2010 x86, x64 Redistributables
- Reinstalled Windows 7 SDK (and the VS2010 Redistributables for x64,x86)
- Added new path variables to Project>Project Properties>Configuration for the 7.1 Include GL and 7.1 Lib folders which are in Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.1
After doing this I reduced number of errors and warnings down to 30.
The most recent error is now:
error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'winapifamily.h': No such file or directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include\comdef.h 51
I saw a post on how to hardcode winapifamily.h for a similar error in Codeblocks here: "winapifamily.h: No such file or directory" when compiling SDL in Code::Blocks
but what is the equivalent solution to this in VS 2012? What directory would I put the winapifamily.h file in?
EDIT: There appears to be a hotfix to the issue here, which is that the application was originally targeted for Win7 but the VS2012 targets Win8. So I am going to download the update here and see if it works: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39305
