basic question about COM

liyang yu

I am writing a very simple local COM server (exe), which has a Car class, a CarClassFactory, also a simple idl, everything goes well until the WinMain() file which provides the housing for the coclass and class factory, vC6.00 keeps saying the following:

Deleting intermediate files and output files for project 'CarCOMExe - Win32 Debug'.
--------------------Configuration: CarCOMExe - Win32 Debug--------------------
Creating Type Library...
Processing F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExeTypeInfo.idl
CarCOMExeTypeInfo.idl
Processing F:\Microsoft Visual Development\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\oaidl.idl
oaidl.idl
Processing F:\Microsoft Visual Development\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\objidl.idl
objidl.idl
Processing F:\Microsoft Visual Development\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\unknwn.idl
unknwn.idl
Processing F:\Microsoft Visual Development\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wtypes.idl
wtypes.idl
Compiling...
StdAfx.cpp
Compiling...
Car.cpp
CarClassFactory.cpp
CarCOMExe.cpp
f:\com\carcomexe\carclassfactory.h(13) : error C2504: 'IClassFactory' : base class undefined
f:\com\carcomexe\carclassfactory.h(19) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'REFIID'
f:\com\carcomexe\carclassfactory.h(25) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'LPUNKNOWN'
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(32) : error C2065: 'CoInitialize' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(36) : error C2065: 'ITypeLib' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(36) : error C2065: 'pTLib' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(36) : error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(37) : error C2065: 'LoadTypeLibEx' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(37) : error C2065: 'REGKIND_REGISTER' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(38) : error C2227: left of '->Release' must point to class/struct/union
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(48) : error C2065: 'CoRegisterClassObject' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(48) : error C2065: 'IClassFactory' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(48) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(61) : error C2065: 'CoRevokeClassObject' : undeclared identifier
F:\COM\CarCOMExe\CarCOMExe.cpp(65) : error C2065: 'CoUninitialize' : undeclared identifier
locks.cpp
Generating Code...
Error executing cl.exe.
Creating browse info file...

CoCarEXE.exe - 15 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Anonymous

Have you #included the following file into your program?

#include <windows.h>

-John

liyang yu

yes, I did...

liyang yu

Yes,I did. In fact, I did the following:

#include "stdafx.h"

which includes windows.h.

liyang yu

It took me a day to figure this out: I am using VC 6.00, and my stdafx.h looks like this: #if !defined(AFX_STDAFX_H__A9DB83DB_A9FD_11D0_BFD1_444553540000__INCLUDED_) #define AFX_STDAFX_H__A9DB83DB_A9FD_11D0_BFD1_444553540000__INCLUDED_ #if _MSC_VER > 1000 #pragma once #endif // _MSC_VER > 1000 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN // Exclude rarely-used stuff from Windows headers #include // TODO: reference additional headers your program requires here //{{AFX_INSERT_LOCATION}} // Microsoft Visual C++ will insert additional declarations immediately before the previous line. #endif // !defined(AFX_STDAFX_H__A9DB83DB_A9FD_11D0_BFD1_444553540000__INCLUDED_) you need to get rid of #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to make a simple local COM server work!! Thanks!

Lost User

Are u using ATL??? ------------------------- Have a great day ahead! Regards, Sohail Kadiwala (My COM Blog - http://lovecom.blogspot.com)

liyang yu

no, plain COM.

vikramlinux

As You are using IClassFactory interafce , give it's declartion too include unknwn.h