DMC 8.38n reports errors in wingdi.h.

gditest.c contains: #include <wingdi.h>
dmc -L/su:windows gditest.c
    FLOAT   eM11;
               ^
c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(365) : Error: ';' expected following
declar
ation of struct member
    FLOAT   eM12;
               ^
c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(366) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
defined
    FLOAT   eM21;
               ^
c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(367) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
defined
    FLOAT   eM22;
               ^
c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(368) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
defined
    FLOAT   eDx;
              ^
c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(369) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
defined
Fatal error: too many errors
--- errorlevel 1

Mark

wingdi.h is not meant to be #include'd alone. You need to preface it with #include <windef.h>, which defines FLOAT.

"Mark Abner" <markab@wrisco.biz> wrote in message news:bugqt7$1jtf$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> DMC 8.38n reports errors in wingdi.h.
>
> gditest.c contains: #include <wingdi.h>
> dmc -L/su:windows gditest.c
>     FLOAT   eM11;
>                ^
> c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(365) : Error: ';' expected following
> declar
> ation of struct member
>     FLOAT   eM12;
>                ^
> c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(366) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
> defined
>     FLOAT   eM21;
>                ^
> c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(367) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
> defined
>     FLOAT   eM22;
>                ^
> c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(368) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
> defined
>     FLOAT   eDx;
>               ^
> c:\dmc\bin\..\include\win32\WINGDI.H(369) : Error: 'FLOAT' is already
> defined
> Fatal error: too many errors
> --- errorlevel 1
>
> Mark
>
>