DLL Help Compiling

[psandekian]

I'm adding error constants to a DLL and it has an error in a file called nsm.tlb. I'm new to VC++ and when I look at this file, it's looks like numbers and letters to me. I cannot copy/paste it so I will type a line:

000e90  47 5F 53 49 5A 45 5F 45  58 43 45 45 44 45 44 57 G_SIZE_EXCEEDEDW

I see where my constant was added but I have no clue as to what could be wrong.

000f70  1A 30 6B FF 4E 53 4D 5F  45 52 52 4F 52 5F 48 41 .Ok.NSM_ERROR_HA
000f80  53 5F 4F 50 45 4E 5F 48  41 4E 44 4C 45 53 57 57  S_OPEN_HANDLESWW

My error constant is "NSM_ERROR_HAS_OPEN_HANDLES" with a constant of "0xf0000034L". The error message does not give any info. It says:

--------------------Configuration: nsm - Win32 Debug--------------------
Creating Type Library...
nsm.odl
oaidl.idl
objidl.idl
unknwn.idl
wtypes.idl
Error executing midl.exe.

nsm.tlb - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Can someone give me some suggestions?

Thanks.
Patty

 

[gleason]

You don't want to look at the type library (it is the compiled output) but rather the input. MIDL.EXE is the Microsoft IDL compiler (IDL is "Interface Definition Language).

I suspect the problem is the first line: shouldn't it be pulling in nsm.idl, not nsm.odl?

Hope that helps!

Pat Gleason
gleason@megsinet.net