error C2061

**=?iso-8859-1?Q?Leo_Havm=F8ller?=** · Nov 17 '08, 11:45 AM

Re: error C2061

<madhu.ab@gmail .comwrote in message
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Hi All,
>
I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h
I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??
Please help.

This off-topic etc. etc. etc.
You should include windows.h instead of winuser.h

Leo Havmøller.

**James Kuyper** · Nov 17 '08, 12:15 PM

Re: error C2061

madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:

Hi All,
>
I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h
I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??
Please help.
>
>
\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'

winuser.h is not a C standard header. I would assume from the name that
it is windows-specific. As such, this is a question that would get
better answers if you posted it to a windows-specific newsgroup.

Being without access to that header file, I can only guess at the
problem. That error message suggests that HDWP is supposed to be defined
somewhere, and hasn't been. It's commonplace for such definitions to be
controlled by #if, #ifdef, or #ifndef statements. I'd recommend trying
to find out where HDWP is supposed to be defined, and then check to see
whether all of the conditions for it being defined have been met.

If HDWP is supposed to be defined in a different header file, then
winuser.h should have #included that other file. However, it's not
uncommon for lazy programmers to assume that the other header file has
already been #included. If the writer of winuser was lazy that way, then
your problem might be that the other header file hasn't been #included
in your code.

By any chance are you using a different compiler to compile your code?
winuser.h might be compatible only with Visual Studio.

**Martin Ambuhl** · Nov 17 '08, 05:05 PM

Re: error C2061

madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:

Hi All,
>
I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h
I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??
Please help.

Even though winuser.h is not a standard C header and is, in fact, tied
to one specific implementation and, therefore, off-topic in comp.lang.c,
it is likely that your problem _is_ topical here.

Whenever you see a series of errors which refer to a header often used
in applications using your implementation, the error is almost certainly
_not_ in that header. The most common explanation is that you have made
an error on a line preceding the #include line for that header. For
example, leaving off a semicolon on the line before will mean that the
early contents of that header are considered a continuation of that
line. Look at your own code, not at winuser.h, for the error.

**jacob navia** · Nov 17 '08, 05:55 PM

Re: error C2061

madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:

Hi All,
>
I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h
I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??
Please help.

Do not include directly winuser.h

Just include windows.h and be done with it

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**Gordon Burditt** · Nov 17 '08, 06:05 PM

Re: error C2061

>I am getting the following errors when i am including header file

>winuser.h
>I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??

If you get a cascade of syntax errors from a header file, especially
one distributed with a system or software package that should be
well-debugged, it is often because you have failed to include a
prerequesite header file (*first*) that defines typedefs needed by
that header file. The errors will usually be at the point where
the typedef is used.

>Please help.
>
>
>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
>syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'
>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2059:
>syntax error : ';'
>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 40) : error C2061:
>syntax error : identifier 'MENUTEMPLATEA'

....

**CBFalconer** · Nov 17 '08, 09:55 PM

Re: error C2061

madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:

>
I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h. I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur
in winuser.h?? Please help.
>
\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'

That looks suspiciously like a windows header. It certainly isn't
mentioned in the C standard, which makes it off-topic on c.l.c.
Try a group that deals with Microsoft or Windows.

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**Martin Ambuhl** · Nov 18 '08, 12:55 AM

Re: error C2061

CBFalconer wrote:

madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:

>I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
>winuser.h. I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur
>in winuser.h?? Please help.
>>
>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
>syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'

>
That looks suspiciously like a windows header. It certainly isn't
mentioned in the C standard, which makes it off-topic on c.l.c.
Try a group that deals with Microsoft or Windows.

Cascading errors on the inclusion of a commonly used header are commonly
seen, and have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows. He might have
reported similar behavior when including a standard header. You are too
quick to jump on the off-topic wagon.

**Nick Keighley** · Nov 18 '08, 09:35 AM

Re: error C2061

On 18 Nov, 00:45, Martin Ambuhl <mamb...@earthl ink.netwrote:

CBFalconer wrote:

madhu...@gmail. com wrote:

I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h. I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur
in winuser.h?? Please help.

>

\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'

>

That looks suspiciously like a windows header. It certainly isn't
mentioned in the C standard, which makes it off-topic on c.l.c.
Try a group that deals with Microsoft or Windows.

>
Cascading errors on the inclusion of a commonly used header are commonly
seen, and have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows. He might have
reported similar behavior when including a standard header.

why?

You are too
quick to jump on the off-topic wagon.

yes

--
Nick Keighley

**Chris Dollin** · Nov 18 '08, 09:55 AM

Re: error C2061

Nick Keighley wrote:

On 18 Nov, 00:45, Martin Ambuhl <mamb...@earthl ink.netwrote:

>Cascading errors on the inclusion of a commonly used header are commonly
>seen, and have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows. He might have
>reported similar behavior when including a standard header.

>
why?

Consider:

struct wallace
{
int grommit;
}

#include <stdio.h>

When I compile this I get:

In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:34,
from x.c:6:
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.3.0/include/stddef.h:214: error: two or more
data types in declaration specifiers
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.3.0/include/stddef.h:214: error: two or more
data types in declaration specifiers

That this is caused by the little man that isn't there, isn't obvious.

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**maddy** · Nov 18 '08, 11:05 AM

Re: error C2061

On Nov 17, 4:43 pm, Leo Havmøller <rtx...@nospam. nospamwrote:

<madhu...@gmail .comwrote in message
>
news:163454e4-759f-4164-b951-ce6298c114e8@r3 7g2000prr.googl egroups.com...
>

Hi All,

>

I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h
I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??
Please help.

>
This off-topic etc. etc. etc.
You should include windows.h instead of winuser.h
>
Leo Havmøller.

HI Leo,

Thanks. I used windows.h and it is working fine now.

**maddy** · Nov 18 '08, 11:15 AM

Re: error C2061

On Nov 17, 10:58 pm, gordonb.l2...@b urditt.org (Gordon Burditt) wrote:

I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
winuser.h
I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur in winuser.h??

>
If you get a cascade of syntax errors from a header file, especially
one distributed with a system or software package that should be
well-debugged, it is often because you have failed to include a
prerequesite header file (*first*) that defines typedefs needed by
that header file. The errors will usually be at the point where
the typedef is used.
>

Please help.

>

\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'
\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2059:
syntax error : ';'
\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 40) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'MENUTEMPLATEA'

>
...

Thanks friends. "windows.h " is working fine.
Thanks for the helping and sharing :)

Thanks
Maddy

**CBFalconer** · Nov 19 '08, 02:15 AM

Re: error C2061

Martin Ambuhl wrote:

CBFalconer wrote:

>madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:
>>

>>I am getting the following errors when i am including header
>>file winuser.h. I dont know whats happening. How will an error
>>occur in winuser.h?? Please help.
>>>
>>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
>>syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'

>>
>That looks suspiciously like a windows header. It certainly
>isn't mentioned in the C standard, which makes it off-topic on
>c.l.c. Try a group that deals with Microsoft or Windows.

>
Cascading errors on the inclusion of a commonly used header are
commonly seen, and have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows.
He might have reported similar behavior when including a standard
header. You are too quick to jump on the off-topic wagon.

Are you claiming that winuser.h is mentioned in the C standard, or
that the experts on Windows C programming hang out here? If madhu
asks in the appropriate newsgroup he will get answers that have
been examined and criticized by multiple experts on the subject.

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**James Kuyper** · Nov 19 '08, 03:05 AM

Re: error C2061

Martin Ambuhl wrote:

CBFalconer wrote:

>madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:

>>I am getting the following errors when i am including header file
>>winuser.h. I dont know whats happening. How will an error occur
>>in winuser.h?? Please help.
>>>
>>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
>>syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'

>>
>That looks suspiciously like a windows header. It certainly isn't
>mentioned in the C standard, which makes it off-topic on c.l.c. Try a
>group that deals with Microsoft or Windows.

>
Cascading errors on the inclusion of a commonly used header are commonly
seen, and have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows. He might have
reported similar behavior when including a standard header. You are too
quick to jump on the off-topic wagon.

Well, that doesn't seem to have been the case here. The OP reports that
replacing winuser.h with windows.h has solved the problem. I don't know
why that makes a difference; but it implies that it has nothing to do
with anything in the user code (like a missing ';') preceding the
#include statement. It seems to me that no one could answer his question
without being aware of the existence of windows.h and the nature of the
differences between windows.h and winuser.h. That in turn implies that
he would have received a useful response far more quickly on a windows
newsgroup than he did on this one.

**Martin Ambuhl** · Nov 19 '08, 06:25 AM

Re: error C2061

CBFalconer wrote:

Martin Ambuhl wrote:

>CBFalconer wrote:

>>madhu.ab@gmail. com wrote:
>>>
>>>I am getting the following errors when i am including header
>>>file winuser.h. I dont know whats happening. How will an error
>>>occur in winuser.h?? Please help.
>>>>
>>>\microsoft visual studio\vc98\inc lude\winuser.h( 39) : error C2061:
>>>syntax error : identifier 'HDWP'
>>That looks suspiciously like a windows header. It certainly
>>isn't mentioned in the C standard, which makes it off-topic on
>>c.l.c. Try a group that deals with Microsoft or Windows.

>Cascading errors on the inclusion of a commonly used header are
>commonly seen, and have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows.
>He might have reported similar behavior when including a standard
>header. You are too quick to jump on the off-topic wagon.

>
Are you claiming that winuser.h is mentioned in the C standard, or
that the experts on Windows C programming hang out here? If madhu
asks in the appropriate newsgroup he will get answers that have
been examined and criticized by multiple experts on the subject.

Don't be daft. I never in any post suggested that winuser.h was
mentioned in the C standard, or that experts in Windows C programming
hang out here. The kind of pronlem he reported is independent of any
particular header, any particular implementation, or where any kind of
expert other than in C programming hangs out. It is a common problem
for inexpert C programmers, no matter what headers or what
implementation they might use. Your seeing "winuser.h" and hitting the
off-topic button is silly and is based on not looking at the actually
reported problem.

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