VC++ Building directshow baseclasses - c++

Question

I am a newbie to DirectX SDK, Platfrom SDK and DirectShow. I downloaded latest Platform SDK and DirectX SDK August'09. I tried to build sample project in folder:
Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\PlayCap\
And had following building errors:
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'D:\Program Files\
Microsoft Platform SDK\samples\multimedia\directshow\baseclasses\
WIN2000_DEBUG\strmbasd.lib'
As far, as I understand, I need to build all sources in "Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\BaseClasses\" directory to get necessary lib.
I tried nmake in that dir and got following:
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\
BaseClasses\ctlutil.h(278) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int
assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int.
Here is code on that lines:
278: STDMETHODIMP
279: CMediaEvent::NonDelegatingQueryInterface(REFIID riid, void **ppv)
What I do wrong? Just can't believe, that using Microsoft's libraries must be so hard.

Answer 1

Microsoft has renamed Platfrom SDK to Windows SDK. The lastest Windows SDK is Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
Windows SDK for Windows 7 has Visual Studio 2008 2005 project files for all DirectShow projects.

Answer 2

On my Xp64 box, I managed to get the DirectShow baseclasses libs built in order to run the amcap sample. I have the June 2010 Microsoft DirectX SDK installed as well as the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1) with all the C/C++ compilers.
First, we have to compile the DirectShow baseclasses :
open a regular old cmd.exe
cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Samples\multimedia\directshow\baseclasses
If you're getting an error about not have VCBuild.exe installed, it's because the
sln and various project files (eg: C/C++ vcproj) are ancient, the next command will
upgrade them nicely, changing old stanky vcproj files into new crappy vcxproj files
VCUpgrade is here on my machine :
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\vcupgrade.exe
Note that even after trying the various combinations of params to vcupgrade,
building the sln with msbuild is a no-go (docs be danged), so I had to directly
compile the project I left the batch file var named SLN anyway because I'm a real revolutionary
VCUpgrade -nologo -overwrite baseclasses.vcproj
This makes it a touch easier to compile different configurations
set SLN="baseclasses.vcxproj"
Note that the baseclasses Release build makes strmbase.lib
and Debug makes strmbasd.lib
amcap needs the Release build tho amcap's build can be debug
A) Compile Release Win32 (== x86)
Using the MsSdk's SetEnv.Cmd lets you avoid all that vsvars32.bat quagmire as well
as the 8 million different cmd shells that have been specially designed to be one
or two fatal flaws away from actually working while relying upon an eplipsy-inducing web of
batch files to do they thing (hey! maybe the two are related!?)
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd" /release /x86 /xp
I've not had any luck using the 64-bit version of MSBuild (maybe targets?),
but x86 MSBuild has been working no problem
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" %SLN% /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=Win32
B) Compile Release X64
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd" /release /x64 /2003
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" %SLN% /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=X64
Second, we can now compile both versions of amcap
open a regular old cmd.exe
cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Samples\multimedia\directshow\capture\amcap
VCUpgrade the vcproj to a vcxproj
VCUpgrade -nologo -overwrite amcap.vcproj
set SLN="amcap.vcxproj"
A) Compile Debug Win32 (== x86)
Set compiler,lib,include,... paths and then compile
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd" /debug /x86 /xp
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" %SLN% /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=Win32
B) Compile Debug X64
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd" /debug /x64 /2003
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" %SLN% /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=X64
I used SysInternals *Process Explorer* to verify that each exe was actually 32-bit and 64-bit respectively. It seems inexplicable that most developers I've worked with don't even know about Process Explorer -- I'm in that thing all day. And yes, that is what she said.

Answer 3

For me this error meant "open C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Samples\multimedia\directshow\baseclasses\baseclasses.sln" (in my case, in visual studio express 2010) it asks to convert it, do so, then build both "release" and "debug."
Then in your own project, under project settings for your project
example: add
G:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Samples\multimedia\directshow\baseclasses
to beginning of “VC++ directories” include path, and G:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Samples\multimedia\directshow\baseclasses\debug to your lib path (anywhere in that).
See also https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd407279(v=vs.85).aspx