Question

Basically, I’m trying to compile CEF on VS2008 EE.

The IDE complains that it cannot find atlbase.h. During some research, I’ve found this reference.
Considering this isn’t the first time I gave C++ another chance, I wasn’t really surprised I had the WinSDK installed already. But of course, the IDE doesn’t know this and the SDK registration tool doesn’t seem to work (even if it says it does).

So, I went to the project options and force-added the paths to the WinSDK source folders.
That helped me get rid of the “atlbase.h not found” error. Instead, I started having multiple errors; 33 in fact, some of which were quite cryptic complaining things like _Module was not defined.

These are the errors:

Compiling...
uiplugin_test.cpp
uiplugin.cpp
string_util.cpp
scheme_test.cpp
resource_util_win.cpp
plugin_test.cpp
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(65) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(79) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(155) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(155) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(168) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(168) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1753) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1753) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1753) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1755) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1757) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(2979) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(2979) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(3058) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(3058) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
osrplugin_test.cpp
osrplugin.cpp
extension_test.cpp
download_handler.cpp
clientplugin.cpp
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(65) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(79) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(155) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(155) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(168) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(168) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1753) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1753) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1753) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1755) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(1757) : error C2065: 'i' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(2979) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(2979) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(3058) : error C2065: '_Module' : undeclared identifier
SDK\Include\atl\atlwin.h(3058) : error C2228: left of '.GetModuleInstance' must have class/struct/union
        type is ''unknown-type''
client_popup_handler.cpp
client_handler_win.cpp
client_handler.cpp
cefclient_win.cpp
.\cefclient_win.cpp(296) : error C3861: 'wcscpy_s': identifier not found
cefclient.cpp
SDK\Include\crt\utility(21) : error C2536: 'std::pair<_T1,_T2>::std::pair<_T1,_T2>::first' : cannot specify explicit initializer for arrays
        with
        [
            _T1=const char [12],
            _T2=const char [16]
        ]
        SDK\Include\crt\utility(24) : see declaration of 'std::pair<_T1,_T2>::first'
        with
        [
            _T1=const char [12],
            _T2=const char [16]
        ]
        SDK\Include\crt\utility(20) : while compiling class template member function 'std::pair<_T1,_T2>::pair(_T1 (&),_T2 (&))'
        with
        [
            _T1=const char [12],
            _T2=const char [16]
        ]
        .\cefclient.cpp(92) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::pair<_T1,_T2>' being compiled
        with
        [
            _T1=const char [12],
            _T2=const char [16]
        ] SDK\Include\crt\utility(21) : error C2536: 'std::pair<_T1,_T2>::std::pair<_T1,_T2>::second' : cannot specify explicit initializer for arrays
        with
        [
            _T1=const char [12],
            _T2=const char [16]
        ]
        SDK\Include\crt\utility(25) : see declaration of 'std::pair<_T1,_T2>::second'
        with
        [
            _T1=const char [12],
            _T2=const char [16]
        ]
binding_test.cpp

Answer 1

I have found a solution to this problem. A few minutes ago I realized they also have a working version for Delphi.

After a couple of minutes, I got my Delphi install configured with the right paths and now it builds nicely.