exclude msxml.h

Question

I have ported a VC++6.0 project into Visual Studio 2008. It uses xerces parser. I do not include msxml.h but still get the the error "error C2371: 'DOMDocument' : redefinition; different basic types c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0a\include\msxml.h 7964". Kindly inform how to exclude msxml.h from the project so that it complies successfully.

Answer 1

Please note: I have already tried using VC_EXTRALEAN and WIN_LEAN_AND_MEAN in stdafx.h but with no success. Also I have tried changing the include directory paths resulting in other errors like "cannot open windows.h". To debug this error, I have to include the directory path where msxml.h also exists.

DO HELP.

Thank you

Answer 2

Hi Neealive,

Found this hint from here - Xerces: MSXML.H - Redefinition of DOMDocument Basetype VS 2008

"msxml.h is included deep in ole2.h; the only way to fix this is to add a
#undef DOMDocument before including the Xerces headers."


Best Regards,
Jijo.

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Answer 3

Hi Neealive,

Try to define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN. Or try to add namespace qualified such as xercesc_3_0::DOMDocument.

Best Regards,
Nancy

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Answer 4

I have already used #undef DOMDocument, also WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN. None of these helped

Answer 5

I commented the lines in msxml.h which declare DOMDocument. This lead to numerous errors in xlocale and xdebug which is weird as these are windows header files. Errors are:-

Error 162 error C2039: '_Catmask' : is not a member of 'std::_Locimp' d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\xlocale 220
Error 99 error C2059: syntax error : ')' d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\xdebug 33

and many more...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 6

Hello, I don't know if you solved this already or not, but I have encountered exactly the same problem today.

WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN, VC_EXTRALEAN, using namespace qualified access to DOMDocument, none of them worked.

 

But after banging  my head for 3 hours, finally defining __MSXML_LIBRARY_DEFINED__ in stdafx.h helped my day.

You can add something like this wherever the compiler looks first.

 

#ifndef __MSXML_LIBRARY_DEFINED__
#define __MSXML_LIBRARY_DEFINED__
#endif

 

Hope this helps.