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ATL-based C++ projects fail to build

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Paul Betts

01 Aug, 2014 11:38 AM

Check out: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/fakepaulbetts/squirrel-windows-next/build/1.0.4 (source at https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows.Next)

As part of this build, we build an WTL-based application, which requires ATL. However, builds on AppVeyor fail (perhaps ATL isn't installed?)

c:\projects\squirrel-windows-next\src\setup\stdafx.h(22): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atlbase.h': No such file or directory [C:\projects\squirrel-windows-next\src\Setup\Setup.vcxproj]

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 01 Aug, 2014 12:48 PM

   

   OK, will take a look what's missing.

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2. 2 Posted by Paul Betts on 01 Aug, 2014 12:57 PM

   

   You may have to step back a commit or two (or switch the configuration from
   CIBuild to Release), I created a new profile that excluded the C++ project
   (sorry to troll you!)

   Paul

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 03 Aug, 2014 12:05 PM

   

   Hi Paul,

   We have Visual Studio Express editions on build workers and it's seems ATL is not available with Express: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn653318(v...

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4. 4 Posted by Cheng Zhao on 07 Aug, 2014 03:43 PM

   

   WDK 7.1 includes ATL's headers and libs, I think it is very reasonable to install it in the workers since many C++ programs require ATL.

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 07 Aug, 2014 04:46 PM

   

   OK, WDK 7.1 has been installed on build workers and is available in default location: C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1.

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6. 6 Posted by Cheng Zhao on 08 Aug, 2014 02:30 AM

   

   That works for me, it is really fast response, thanks!

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 08 Aug, 2014 02:31 AM

   

   Great, thanks for the update!

   - Feodor

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8. 8 Posted by Paul Betts on 08 Aug, 2014 08:52 AM

   

   This is great! Thanks Feodor - as Cheng said, this is a super fast fix. Thank you so much!

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9. 9 Posted by Kevin Sawicki on 19 Sep, 2016 08:11 PM

   

   Saw a few failures today that look like the same issue, not sure if it is related to the today's worker image update or not:

   https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Atom/electron/build/2176/job/ngh0sxfrwjx5cqng#L427

   ```
   c:\projects\electron\atom\browser\ui\win\jump_list.h(8): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atlbase.h': No such file or directory
   ```

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10. Support Staff 10 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 19 Sep, 2016 08:14 PM

    

    Where is the location of that atlbase.h file?

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11. 11 Posted by Kevin Sawicki on 19 Sep, 2016 08:17 PM

    

    Where is the location of that atlbase.h file?

    I believe it is part of the Windows SDK.

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12. Support Staff 12 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 19 Sep, 2016 08:19 PM

    

    Which one should be used? There was WDK 10.0.14393 installed: https://www.appveyor.com/updates/2016/09/19/ - maybe it's affected the SDK headers?

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13. 13 Posted by Kevin Sawicki on 19 Sep, 2016 08:24 PM

    

    Hmm, maybe this was just an intermitted issue.

    I rebuilt the failing build and the same SHA now builds successfully, https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Atom/electron/build/2179/job/6e6fbl...

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14. Support Staff 14 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 19 Sep, 2016 08:32 PM

    

    That's because we've rolled back images due to a different issue.

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15. Support Staff 15 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 20 Sep, 2016 05:15 PM

    

    A new image is back and we made sure ATL part is installed in VS 2015.

    Interesting though, it looks like there is a bug in VS installation somewhere as sometimes after rolling out updates to VS some of its features get disabled. We reproduced that on two different environments.

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16. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:08 AM.