Add dependency on Shell32.lib to WDK makefile - c++

Question

I've successfully powered my way through the WDK XPSDrv sample project and modified it to do what I need. However, I absolutely cannot figure out how to get the build scripts to reference/include/whatever shell32.lib. I'm a .NET guy! This is strange and terrifying territory.
I think adding a dependency reference is what I need to do. When I compile I get this error
3>errors in directory c:\winddk\7600.16385.1\src\printgit\xpsdrvsmpl\
src\filters\common
3>c:\winddk\7600.16385.1\src\printgit\xpsdrvsmpl\src\filters\common\
xdstrmflt.cpp(238) : error C3861: 'ShellExecute': identifier not found
Due to my extreme lack of knowledge (and hurry) I'm not using visual studio, just simple mods in notepad++ and the shell wdk build environment. I have a surrogate project in VS where I've been writing and testing small chunks of code. In that project I added a Dependency library to shell32.lib and everything worked perfectly.
There's a makefile that references a sources, the contents are below.
Not that it matters, but the code that requires shell32 is
HINSTANCE statu = ShellExecute(NULL,TEXT("open"),szTempFileName,NULL,NULL,9);
Here's the sources file.
INCLUDES=$(INCLUDES); \
.\; \
.\..\inc; \
.\..\debug; \
$(DDK_INC_PATH); \
$(SDK_INC_PATH)\gdiplus; \
USE_ATL=1
USE_STL=1
ATL_VER=70
STL_VER=70
# We use STL 7.0, which is not available pre-Vista. We therefore set USE_LIBCMT=1
# If STL 7.0 is not necessary, USE_MSVCRT=1 is recommended
USE_LIBCMT=1
USE_IDLBASED_DLLDATA=1
USE_OBJECT_ROOT=1
MSC_WARNING_LEVEL=/W4 /WX
USE_NATIVE_EH=1
PRECOMPILED_CXX=1
PRECOMPILED_INCLUDE=precomp.h
# To remove debug code remove -DDBG from the line below
C_DEFINES=$(C_DEFINES) -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE
SOURCES=\
bkpchndlr.cpp \
bkpthndlr.cpp \
bkschema.cpp \
cmpthndlr.cpp \
cmprofpthndlr.cpp \
cmprofpchndlr.cpp \
cmintpthndlr.cpp \
cmschema.cpp \
cmprofileschema.cpp \
cmintentsschema.cpp \
globals.cpp \
nupschema.cpp \
nupchndlr.cpp \
nupthndlr.cpp \
pchndlr.cpp \
pgscpchndlr.cpp \
pgscpthndlr.cpp \
pgscschema.cpp \
porientpthndlr.cpp \
porientschema.cpp \
psizepthndlr.cpp \
psizeschema.cpp \
pimagepthndlr.cpp \
pimageschema.cpp \
pshndlr.cpp \
pthndlr.cpp \
ptquerybld.cpp \
schema.cpp \
wmpchndlr.cpp \
wmpthndlr.cpp \
wmschema.cpp \
workbuff.cpp
TARGETNAME=xdsmplcmn
TARGETTYPE=LIBRARY

Answer 1

For example in your sources file:
TARGETLIBS=$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\kernel32.lib $(SDK_LIB_PATH)\user32.lib $(SDK_LIB_PATH)\shell32.lib
... amend as needed ;)
However, your error is actually not a linker error but a compiler error, so you'll likely want to include the header that declares ShellExecute, which is shellapi.h, in some way.
Just looked the sample up in my WDK (7600.16385.1) and as a matter of fact you removed the very important part reproduced below, to which you just would have to append the other .lib files to link against:
TARGETLIBS= \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\kernel32.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\user32.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\winspool.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\ole32.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\oleaut32.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\advapi32.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\msxml6.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\uuid.lib \
$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\Comdlg32.lib \
$(OBJ_PATH)\..\debug\$O\xdsdbg.lib \
$(OBJ_PATH)\..\common\$O\xdsmplcmn.lib \
... apologies, there are plenty of sources files as part of this sample, so of course I cannot really know which of the samples you modified and are trying to build :)