Cannot open include file: 'intrin.h': No such file or directory

Question

I tried including #include "intrin.h" in one of my modules but i get this error:

Error 1 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'intrin.h': No such file or directory

I'm building it with build.exe utility from the latest DDK on X86 architecture.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Thats is because there is no such header called intrin.h in the CRT files which come with the DDK, the headers available which are in this CRT are mmintrin.h, xmmintrin.h and emmintrin.h. You can try stealing it from VS2008, but be careful, it isn't in the environment originally so it may not work with the build tools from the DDK.

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Answer 2

Indeed, i noticed that intrinsics are not available in DDK or SDK, but just in VS. i tried to add C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include to the search paths and even wrote #include "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\intrin.h", but it still doesn't want to work.