{"id":3247,"date":"2018-12-07T19:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T07:49:27","slug":"troubles-with-windows-target-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/troubles-with-windows-target-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubles with Windows target versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently migrated an old VC++ project to use the Visual Studio 2017 toolset and when compiling I run into the following errors about redefining the structure <tt>tagTOUCHINPUT<\/tt>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" >1&gt;c:\\program files (x86)\\microsoft visual studio\\2017\\enterprise\\vc\\tools\\msvc\\14.16.27023\\atlmfc\\include\\afxwin.h(2175): error C2011: 'tagTOUCHINPUT': 'struct' type redefinition\r\n1&gt;c:\\program files (x86)\\windows kits\\8.1\\include\\um\\winuser.h(5865): note: see declaration of 'tagTOUCHINPUT'\r\n1&gt;c:\\program files (x86)\\microsoft visual studio\\2017\\enterprise\\vc\\tools\\msvc\\14.16.27023\\atlmfc\\include\\afxwin.h(2177): error C2011: 'tagGESTUREINFO': 'struct' type redefinition\r\n1&gt;c:\\program files (x86)\\windows kits\\8.1\\include\\um\\winuser.h(14763): note: see declaration of 'tagGESTUREINFO'\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The <tt>tagTOUCHINPUT<\/tt> is defined as follows in <tt>WinUser.h<\/tt><\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:c++ decode:true \" >#if(WINVER &gt;= 0x0601)\r\n\r\nDECLARE_HANDLE(HTOUCHINPUT);\r\n\r\ntypedef struct tagTOUCHINPUT {\r\n    LONG x;\r\n    LONG y;\r\n    HANDLE hSource;\r\n    DWORD dwID;\r\n    DWORD dwFlags;\r\n    DWORD dwMask;\r\n    DWORD dwTime;\r\n    ULONG_PTR dwExtraInfo;\r\n    DWORD cxContact;\r\n    DWORD cyContact;\r\n} TOUCHINPUT, *PTOUCHINPUT;\r\ntypedef TOUCHINPUT const * PCTOUCHINPUT;\r\n\r\n#endif<\/pre>\n<p>However, <tt>afxwin.h<\/tt> also defines it as shown below:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:c++ decode:true \" >#if (NTDDI_VERSION &lt; NTDDI_WIN7)\r\ntypedef struct tagTOUCHINPUT {\r\n} TOUCHINPUT, *PTOUCHINPUT;\r\ntypedef struct tagGESTUREINFO {\r\n} GESTUREINFO, *PGESTUREINFO;\r\n#endif<\/pre>\n<p>The first defines it if <tt>WINVER<\/tt> is specifying at least Windows Vista, the second if <tt>NTDDI_VERSION<\/tt> is less than Windows 7. 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