PROCESSENTRY32 undeclared identifier

[TheMillionDollarMan]

Hi.

I am trying to build a console app that takes a snap shot of the current running processes and saves the info to a file.

However I get this complier error:
PROCESSENTRY32: undeclared identifier

It can be found in the header Tlhelp32.h.
I read the help for error code C2065 but it didn't help.

Can someone explain to me how I can resolve this error message?

Thanks
D

 

[bNasty]

Did you actually try to include that file and windows.h?
All ToolHelp functions are already in kernel32.dll, so there shouldn't be any problem...

 

[TheMillionDollarMan]

Yeah. I have these three includes..
#include <Winbase.h>
#include <Tlhelp32.h>
#include <stdafx.h>

I also tried
#include <windows.h>
#include <Tlhelp32.h>
#include <stdafx.h>

No avail.

It should be noted that when
PROCESSENTRY32 pEntry;
When I am coding hitting the full stop next to pEntry gives a list of all the members in this struct so it can find the definition but just not at compile time.

hmmm...

A compilation directive maybe...I have tried a few already.

 

[bNasty]

I've just tried it, and it works, so something with your compiler settings are maybe different...
Btw, is there any special stdafx.h...? Why do you need it in console app...?

 

[Cagliostro]

put in this order:

#include &quot;stdafx.h&quot;
#undef _WINDOWS_
#include<windows.h>

Ion Filipski

 

[AndyRocks]

Try putting a

#define _WINNT_WIN32 0x500

before the other includes. This makes your program incompatible with Win95/98/NT 4.0 but exposes newly introduced APIs in Win2K. If this works, then this is the way to do it.

Cheers,
Andy

 

[TheMillionDollarMan]

Thanks for the suggestions guys but niether worked.

What did work...

#include <windows.h>
#include <Tlhelp32.h>
#include <stdio.h>

case closed.