Topic created on: September 2, 2010 12:47 CDT by timtoady .

Hello All,

I could really use your help on this one.  I am trying to develop a plugin for IDA.  I am using VS 2008 for development and version 5.3 of the IDA SDK.  I have configured VS as recommended in the instructions included with the SDK.  I also was careful to create an x64 configuration with libvc.w64 and libvc.x64 selected as additional library directories in the project properties.  I define __NT__, __IDP__ and __EA64__ to the preprocessor as I have seen in the makefiles but have had no results.  I have also tried declaring every permutation of __EA64__, __AMD64__ and __X64__ to no avail. The code I am using is a simple 'hello world' program and appears in [1] below.  When I build for Win32 everything works fine.  That is, it compiles, links and executes in IDA Advanced 32-bit.  When I build for x64 it compiles but flags the following linker error:


error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_callui


This function looks like it is exported in a few static libraries (ida.a and pro.a in all the libgcc directories located at the root of the SDK directory) but strangely isn't an issue when building for Win32.  I have also tried the VS2005 Solution templates listed at [2] but these actually gave me poorer results.  I was convinced it was just a goofy path statement on my part but I believe I have tried everything, not to mention the fact that Google has precisely zero results for __imp_callui.

Thank you in advance for any insight you can provide.


Kind regards,

-J

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[1] http://www.codebreakers-journal.com/downloads/cbj/2005/CBJ_2_1_2005_Callief_IDA.pdf
[2] http://www.hex-rays.com/contest2009/