Using CMake to generate CrashRpt.sin to compile with VS 2015

[eha...@hardin-soft.com]

I used the CrashRpt1403 CMakeLists.txt generate a CrashRpt.sin which I then opened with Visual Studio 2015.

Project is set to x64 Release

In the Solution Explorer I right-clicked on ALL_BUILD and and clicked on Build.  I get 12 succeeded, 5 failed

The problem is that no lib\x64\CrashRpt.lib is being built (CrashRptProbe1403.lib is, however) 

That accounted for 4 of the errors.  The final error and possibly the main culprit is

Error        Element <Optimization> has an invalid value of "MinSize".    CrashRpt    C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets    253   

Has anyone tried to recompile for VS 2015 as 64-bit?

Ed

[eha...@hardin-soft.com]

Reply by original poster:

I found the problem.  Selecting the CrashRpt project in the Solution Explorer and opening the Project Properties -> C/C++ section -> Optimization section I saw that Optimiation was set to MinSize.  Dropping down the box of choices I saw that MinSize was not a valid choice but Minimize Size (/01) was so I set it to that and ran the Build again.  This time I was successful.

Ed

[eha...@hardin-soft.com]

Continued by original poster.

I've hit a brick wall.  After compiling the CrashRpt.sin project successfully I now can't get my own project to build.

I had originally had all of this working with Visual Studio 2010.  I'm now bringing by project over to VS 2015 and this is where I am having problems.

If I do everything as I did in VS 2010 (and according to the CrashRpt docs) I get 21 Errors starting with
LNK2001    unresolved external symbol crAddFile2A...then crAddFile2W...and down the line

If I add the CrashRpt.cpp to my Source Files I get 72 Errors all the same but referring to different lines in Utilities.h, CrashHandler.h and others
C2872    'CString': ambiguous symbol  (apparently referring to each and every place CString is used in CrashRpt)

If I exclude the CrashRpt.cpp from the build I am back to the 21 LNK2001 errors.

Has anyone tried to use CrashRpt in Visual Studio 2015?  Would anyone have any idea of how to eliminate the LNK2001 errors?

To produce a Win10 app I apparently need to compile in VS 2015 so that is what I am working on.

Ed

[eha...@hardin-soft.com]

PPS to this post.

To the top of the CrashRpt.def file I added the line

LIBRARY CrashRpt

I then rebuilt the CrashRpt.sin and and then went back into my project and rebuilt and, voila,  all of the
LNK2001    unresolved external symbol crAddFile2A... errors relating to the CrashRpt.def file are gone.

I am now only left with a single
LNK2001    unresolved external symbol HtmlHelpW error to solve which has to do with my projects HTML Help.

I hope all of this helps the next CrashRpt user who tries to port over to VS 2015

Ed