Topic created on: December 1, 2009 11:49 CST by minipc .

I want to develop an IDA plugin.  I have installed IDA 4.9 Free and IDA 4.9 SDK which I have patched appropriately after Woodmann.  I have setup a build environment after Micallef.  However, I have obviously messed up somewhere, because when I try to compile the template example "hello world" plugin, it fails

1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: whatever_you_like, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
1>Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'whatever_you_like', configuration 'Release|Win32'
1>Compiling...
1>appropriately.cpp
1>C:\Program Files\IDA Free\sdk\include\lines.hpp(697) : error C2059: syntax error : '='
1>C:\Program Files\IDA Free\sdk\include\lines.hpp(697) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
1>Build log was saved at "file://d:\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\whatever_you_like\Release\BuildLog.htm"
1>whatever_you_like - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========


The line in lines.hpp that is generating the errors is

  APPEND(ptr, end, closing_comment());

and the APPEND macro is defined as follows

// append a string to the buffer checking the buffer size
#define APPEND(buf, end, name)                    \
  do                                              \
  {                                               \
    const char *__in = name;                      \
    while ( true )                                \
    {                                             \
      if ( buf >= end )                           \
      {                                           \
        buf = end-1;                              \
        buf[0] = '\0';                            \
        break;                                    \
      }                                           \
      if (( *buf = *__in++) == '\0' )             \
        break;                                    \
      buf++;                                      \
    }                                             \
  } while ( 0 )

which is basically how it's defined in the more recent 5.2 SDK.

I would be very grateful for some advice from anyone with more experience than me of any of IDA 4.9 Free, IDA 4.9 SDK, VCE++2008 or even C++.  Thanks :)