Upgrading Visual Studio Yields - 'IAsyncOperation': base class undefined and IID_IAsyncOperation undefined - c++

I'm testing VS2017 to see if I can move to it from VS2008 (I think we can drop Win9x now but still need NT4) and all is looking pretty favorable building the libraries, but one won't build due to the 'IAsyncOperation': base class undefined and IID_IAsyncOperation undefined errors. I thought maybe because I didn't install MFC in the initial install, so went back in and added MFC, but still have the problem. I searched the include directories and couldn't find it either. Searching Internet, no luck. So is there a direct replacement for those (I'd like to wrap them in an #if so I can still build with V2008 if needed).
TIA!!

Finally found it:
#if _MSC_VER >= 1900
#include "Shldisp.h"
#define IAsyncOperation IDataObjectAsyncCapability
#define IID_IAsyncOperation IID_IDataObjectAsyncCapability
#endif

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There are too many errors for the IntelliSense engine to function correctly

Please leave the window-installer tag in - this Q/A is not for
C++ experts, but for people like me, who use C++ when they have to.
They may face this potential time-waster, and need a quick fix to get
msi.h or other includes operational quickly. VS2017 templates must
have changed quite a bit - I didn't see this issue before.
Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition with all available C++ components installed (perhaps this problem does not exist in the professional edition?).
File => New => Project... => Visual C++\Windows Desktop\Windows Console Application => OK.
Do a quick test build to verify there are no errors. Right click solution => Build. As stated no errors should show up.
Now add this include for msi.h directly below #include stdafx.h right above the main() function in the console appliation's CPP file:
#include <msi.h>
// And just to make things link:
#pragma comment(lib, "msi.lib")
A red error chevron should show up in the top left corner at the start of the first line comment saying on hover: "There are too many errors for the IntelliSense engine to function correctly, some of which may not be visible in the editor. PCH warning: an unknown error occurred. An IntelliSense PCH file was not generated."
Doing a build now should reveal numerous errors. In my case from wincrypt.h - and it got me thinking about WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN - see answer below. I thought such basics would already be included.
I keep seeing this problem in all new C++ Windows Console Application projects, but when I try in an older project created with Visual Studio 2013 it compiles correctly with msi.h included along with the link pragma.
Judging from the error message there must be something wrong with the precompiled header (PCH). This is what threw me off.
UPDATE: Others have asked about the same error message for other include files (not MSI related). I guess this is a generic problem that strikes every now and then - probably with classes that are in little use (or include Windows.h - perhaps)?
As a general suggestion this might be a hidden dependency problem (an include that is missing), or an incorrect order of the include files (you need to change the order of your includes for some technical reason that is not immediately obvious) or a incorrect or missing define (like seen in the answer below the line underneath). My take on it: get on github.com and search for similar sample code.
These issues can be quite clunky to work out for those of us who need C++ occasionally, and otherwise be "well known" for the C++ pros (who fix it in seconds as second nature). C++ pros: please keep in mind that issues such as these can kill a whole day's worth of productivity for those of us forced to clunk around with C++ when we need to - and have no C++ pros around to ask - terrible situation that! :-) - I hereby declare a "be nice to your C++ guru - if you got them - day!").
In stdafx.h, try adding this after #pragma once and before other includes:
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
// Windows Header Files:
#include <windows.h>
Now try to rebuild your solution and see if the problem has disappeared.
Though simple, the strangeness of the error message (seen in the question above) can throw people off course trying to figure out what is wrong. Also, this behavior seems new in VS2017 - template change.
It looks like including <atlstr.h> will also work, so that probably makes my problem more obscure. Could have sworn I tried this though - maybe after I made project settings changes that made it fail still (exactly what I hope to help others avoid).
If only these basic includes could be present in the file but commented out so they could be enabled quickly in sequence for testing - without any fuss.

CLion and Crypto++ library

Some time ago I started coding my application in Visual Studio 2015, had no issues setting all of the library dependencies.
Now, I decided to move to CLion. However my application has a dependency of cryptopp library, which I need to link in my CLion project.
Currently, I'm facing tons of undefined reference errors
undefined reference to `CryptoPP::Integer::Integer(char const*)'
undefined reference to `CryptoPP::Integer::Integer(char const*)'
undefined reference to `CryptoPP::Integer::Integer(char const*)'
undefined reference to `CryptoPP::DH_Domain<CryptoPP::DL_GroupParameters_GFP_DefaultSafePrime, CryptoPP::EnumToType<CryptoPP::CofactorMultiplicationOption, 0> >::AccessGroupParameters()'
undefined reference to `CryptoPP::DH_Domain<CryptoPP::DL_GroupParameters_GFP_DefaultSafePrime, CryptoPP::EnumToType<CryptoPP::CofactorMultiplicationOption, 0> >::GetGroupParameters() const'
undefined reference to `CryptoPP::DH_Domain<CryptoPP::DL_GroupParameters_GFP_DefaultSafePrime, CryptoPP::EnumToType<CryptoPP::CofactorMultiplicationOption, 0> >::GetGroupParameters() const'
[..]
I have indeed set include directories in my CMakeLists:
set(EXTERN_LIBS E:/dev/libs)
include_directories(${EXTERN_LIBS} ${EXTERN_LIBS}/include)
link_directories(${EXTERN_LIBS})
However, I still cannot get it to work.
I'm using MinGW for my project. Here is a preview of settings and versions:
How can I properly add cryptopp library into my project in CLion?
I think we may have mostly cleared the MinGW/C++11 issue at Commit e4cef84883b2. You should work from Master or perform a git pull, and then uncomment the define for CRYPTOPP_NO_CXX11 in config.h : 65 (or so):
// Define CRYPTOPP_NO_CXX11 to avoid C++11 related features shown at the
// end of this file. Some compilers and standard C++ headers advertise C++11
// but they are really just C++03 with some additional C++11 headers and
// non-conforming classes. You might also consider `-std=c++03` or
// `-std=gnu++03`, but they are required options when building the library
// and all programs. CRYPTOPP_NO_CXX11 is probably easier to manage but it may
// cause -Wterminate warnings under GCC. MSVC++ has a similar warning.
// Also see https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/529
// #define CRYPTOPP_NO_CXX11 1
I think the problems is, you are hitting issues related to Windows and its lack of proper C++11 support, but you are getting them indirectly. They are indirect because MinGW and GCC is layered on top. MinGW and GCC cannot possibly provide C++11 because the underlying platform cannot.
I think your best bet at this point is to define CRYPTOPP_NO_CXX11. I don't believe we can do it for you like we do on Windows because the defines we need access to are hidden behind MinGW and GCC. And we also have some MSVC++ bugs to workaround.
Here's how we do it on Windows, but we don't have access to these defines in MinGW (from config.h : 950):
// Dynamic Initialization and Destruction with Concurrency ("Magic Statics")
// MS at VS2015 with Vista (19.00); GCC at 4.3; LLVM Clang at 2.9; Apple Clang at 4.0; Intel 11.1; SunCC 5.13.
// Microsoft's implementation only works for Vista and above, so its further
// limited. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1789709
#if (CRYPTOPP_MSC_VERSION >= 1900) && ((WINVER >= 0x0600) || (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600)) || \
(CRYPTOPP_LLVM_CLANG_VERSION >= 20900) || (CRYPTOPP_APPLE_CLANG_VERSION >= 40000) || \
(__INTEL_COMPILER >= 1110) || (CRYPTOPP_GCC_VERSION >= 40300) || (__SUNPRO_CC >= 0x5130)
# define CRYPTOPP_CXX11_DYNAMIC_INIT 1
#endif // Dynamic Initialization compilers
If you define CRYPTOPP_NO_CXX11, then the following will not be defined and you will avoid the problems: CRYPTOPP_CXX11_DYNAMIC_INIT, CRYPTOPP_CXX11_SYNCHRONIZATION, and CRYPTOPP_CXX11_ATOMICS.
The second issue, the one related to Clion and Cmake, was settled as follows. We setup a separate GitHub with our Autotools and Cmake files. The Autotools files are at cryptopp-autotools, and the Cmake files are at cryptopp-cmake.
The repositories are in my GiHub because this is the sort of administrivia that Wei Dai, who wrote the library and provides the Crypto++ GitHub, prefers to avoid. The logical separation also helps establish the logical boundary so folks know Autotools and CMake are not part of the official Crypto++ distribution.
The community is responsible for Autotools and Cmake, and we will work with the community on issues. If the community puts in the work, then Autotools and Cmake will improve. If either Autotools or CMake gets stable, then we will add a tarball with the files to the official distribution.
Currently Autotools and Cmake are in states that needs improvement. The problems with Cmake are detailed at CMake | Current Status on the wiki. The problems with Autotools are not really documented because I work with distro maintainers on them. Its kind of like we know what the prolems are, but most others do not.

Just another undefined reference to `boost::system::system_category()'

At the beginning I must assure You that I've tried almost every solution from similar topics , still they didn't solve my issue.
I'm building binaries from Boost 1.57 using MinGW.
Boost libraries I'm using: thread and system build without any errors.
I was trying:
toolset=gcc --target-os=qnxnto and toolset=gcc --target-os=qnx, both didn't work.
I'm including correctly both libraries:
-lboost_system-mgw48-mt-d-1_57 -lboost_thread-mgw48-mt-d-1_57
after using:
#define BOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED
I got rid of boost::system::generic_category() error, still I can't get rid of:
boost::system::system_category()
I'm working in QNX Momentics.
I'm totally out of ideas, I'm really looking forward for any help I can get.

search for unresolved references that should have been ifdef'ed out

I hope this is an interesting question. I'm trying to find the source of an unresolved external symbol. I have debug code that uses a global file pointer if debugging is turned on. All of this debugging code is supposed to be protected by #ifdef, like:
#ifdef DO_XLL_DEBUG
fprintf(debugPointer, "hello\n);
...
#endif
When I define DO_XLL_DEBUG, all is well. If I undef DO_XLL_DEBUG, everything compiles (I do a rebuild all just in case), but it fails at the link step, not finding debugPointer.
So, the question is, is there an easy way to find where I failed to #ifdef around the debug code? I can think of several not so easy ways.
I'm using Visual Studio 2005. This is a C++ project.
Thanks!
[EDIT]
Thanks for all the suggestions. Turns out the problem was in someone else's code that is not part the corresponding project I'm working on in Linux (where I do most of my work), so no wonder I didn't find it right away.
Just define some incompatible debugPointer and let the compiler point you at all the places where it's accidentially used or redefined. Maybe like this:
#ifndef DO_XLL_DEBUG
#define debugPointer static_assert(false,"damn it!");
#endif
(given that you don't have other variables, parameters, etc. which are called debugPointer)

BOOST_MESSAGE undefined

I have installed boost_1_54 on windows by checkout from svn and then
bootstrap
.\b2
QuantLib library dependent on boost compiles well all but one project: test-suite which uses BOOST_MESSAGE. this is undefined. I can see that there is no BOOST_MESSAGE in my version of boost.
Therefore is this QuantLib incompatibility or have I missed something?
On my linux boost version the same thing applies to BOOST_MESSAGE - it is undefined
I have seen this but I am not sure how to interpret this.
I'm afraid you gave us more credit than we deserved :)
We haven't compiled QuantLib against Boost svn yet. The latest I've tried is Boost 1.53 (the latest released version) in which BOOST_MESSAGE was still available.
Thanks for the heads-up, though. I'll patch the library so that it's ready for next version. As mentioned in the comments, it should be as simple as adding
#if BOOST_VERSION > 105300
#define BOOST_MESSAGE(msg) BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE(msg)
#endif
to test-suite/utilities.hpp.
on linux I had to add
libboost_unit_test_framework.so
to the Linker->Libraries and
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
#define BOOST_MESSAGE( M ) BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE( M )
is already present in test/test_tools.hpp.
on windows I have different #defines and this is not present, so I added it to the
unit_test_log.hpp
where BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE is defined (in boost files to avoid same issue again in the case of other applications using BOOST_MESSAGE).
BOOST_MESSAGE issue resolved but still can't disambiguate
const void* = boost::test_tools::check_is_close
and
const void* = boost::test_tools::check_is_small
because these are templates. so the solution is to remove it (test-suite compiles well) or use appropriate pointers to function templates
on Windows, after romoval or function
_use_check
in utilities.hpp
changed to not have pointers to TEMPLATE functions as default, so changed to:
void _use_check(
const void*,
const void*) const {}
there were still errors while building test-suite project. unresolved externals: fdmhestonfwdop, fdmblackscholesfwdop, fdmsquarerootfwdop. obviously this classes (headers+source) I had to add to Quantlib project, build library QuantLib-vc110-mt-gd.lib again and rebuild test-suite project then.
after pleasure with VS linker error "lnk1210 exceeded internal ilk size limit link with incremental no" (it really likes RAM, but on windows I have this resource quite limited), it is OK. compiled. : p