38441 - Build problems with InlineIsEqualGUID

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Bratell]

I often have problem building the ActiveX component (which is part of the normal 
build so I guess I have to build it).

I'm ending up with:

MozillaBrowser.cpp
j:\mozilla\mozilla\embedding\browser\activex\src\control\MozillaBrowser.cpp(168)
 : error C2668: 'InlineIsEqualGUID' : ambiguous call to overloaded function
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'

Searching MSDN shows that it might be caused by a Platform SDK bug which should 
be fixed in the january edition. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q243298 
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q243/2/98.ASP> but since it's 
the January edition I have installed I don't quite believe what it says. I will 
try to install a later Platform SDK, but if you could do the fix mentioned in 
the article, you might help people having the same problem as me.

The suggested workaround is to put :: or ATL:: in front of the call to 
InlineIsEqualGUID, making it ::InlineIsEqualGUID or ATL::InlineIsEqualGUID and 
that did the trick for me.

Comment 1

[locka]

The latest platform SDK has a patched version of atlbase.h in 
mssdk\include\atl30. Make sure you have this in your include path environment 
variable before the normal ATL headers.

If this fixes the problem, can you close this bug report? Thanks.

Comment 2

[Daniel Bratell]

Yes, that solves the problem but as I said, I wanted you to consider changing 
the source code so that it wouldn't matter what SDK you have installed.

So you can close the bug if you want.

Comment 3

[locka]

Closing the problem. Microsoft provide a workaround for their own breakage.