[ros-dev] Explorer in XP and Wallpaper changing...

[Martin Fuchs]

On 28.02.2005 04:11:42 Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Hi everyone,

> Firstly, it seems our explorer doesn't load in WXP anymore. Looks like 
> we are directly importing NtGdiBitBlt (undocumented function) instead of 
> relying on BitBlt. I don't see any need to use undocumented native API 
> in explorer... I've also heard that it's impossible to built it with 
> msvc because of numerous (43) template errors. Bizzeh on IRC knows more 
> about this.

I don't have problems compiling explorer with MSVC.
Make sure you use at least VC++ SP5. Without service packs the
compiler is quite unusable for compiling C++ template code.

Regards,

   Martin