{"id":499,"date":"2014-07-17T23:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=499"},"modified":"2014-07-17T23:53:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:53:42","slug":"resedit-doesnt-work-with-the-windows-sdk-8-0-and-above-use-7-1-or-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/resedit-doesnt-work-with-the-windows-sdk-8-0-and-above-use-7-1-or-below\/","title":{"rendered":"ResEdit doesn&#039;t work with the Windows SDK 8.0 and above (use 7.1 or below)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ResEdit Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.resedit.net\/\">ResEdit<\/a> is a nice <a title=\"MSDN: About Resource Files\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/windows\/desktop\/aa380599.aspx\">resource file<\/a> editor for Windows programs. Regrettably, it has some issues with the latest versions of the Windows SDK (8.0 and 8.1) &#8211; it&#8217;s possible to create a resource script (<code>.rc<\/code>) file, but you won&#8217;t be able to open it again later. Even if <code>%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%Windows Kits8.1Include<\/code> is set as include path, symbols like <code>VOS_NT_WINDOWS32<\/code> (defined in <code>verrsrc.h<\/code>) won&#8217;t be resolved and you&#8217;ll get &#8216;undeclared identifier&#8217; errors if your resource script contains them.<\/p>\n<p>Use an earlier version of the Windows SDK (like <a title=\"Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-au\/download\/details.aspx?id=8279\">7.1<\/a>) and ResEdit has no problem reading the header files.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, I&#8217;m successfully using the following include paths:<br \/>\n<code>%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%Microsoft SDKsWindowsv7.1AInclude<\/code><br \/>\n<code>%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0VCinclude<\/code><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just me experiencing this issue:<br \/>\n&#8216;<a title=\"cplusplus.com: ResEdit started to be Annoying\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cplusplus.com\/forum\/general\/60012\/\">ResEdit started to be Annoying<\/a>&#8216; (January 2012)<br \/>\n&#8216;<a title=\"Dream.In.Code: Resedit Problem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamincode.net\/forums\/topic\/348173-resedit-problem\/\">Resedit Problem<\/a>&#8216; (June 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ResEdit is a nice resource file editor for Windows programs. Regrettably, it has some issues with the latest versions of the Windows SDK (8.0 and 8.1) &#8211; it&#8217;s possible to create a resource script (.rc) file, but you won&#8217;t be able to open it again later. Even if %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%Windows Kits8.1Include is set as include path, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/resedit-doesnt-work-with-the-windows-sdk-8-0-and-above-use-7-1-or-below\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ResEdit doesn&#039;t work with the Windows SDK 8.0 and above (use 7.1 or below)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,106,113,114,116,125,171],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-bug","tag-rc","tag-res","tag-resedit","tag-resource","tag-sdk","tag-windows-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}