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Check Infrastructure Upgrade Integrations Resources Newsletter Blog Webinars Product Documentation Data Sheets Case Studies Support Login to Self-Service About About Us News Events Customers Partners Our Team Careers Contact Us Terms & Conditions to HR Correcting a MIDL compiler error - MIDL1001 : cannot open input file March 22, 2010 This post is for me or for any of the poor souls out there still doing COM development and using the MIDL compiler in anger. Every now and again I need to get our build automation working with the MIDL compiler and it always seems to be related to some sort of path issue. I ran into this again today on my new development machine and in frustration am creating this post so I can remind myself what I did to fix it. midl : command line error MIDL1001 : cannot open input file oaidl.idl We have a step in our build automation where we generate a type library using midl.exe. Usually when you are using the Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvars32.bat) this will work fine but something seems to have gone wrong with this on my Windows 7 development machine on which I’ve also installed the Visual 2010 release candidate which may be to blame in this situation. The answer lies in the registry setting for the Windows SDK. vcvars32.bat is looking in the registry setting above to find the path the the Windows SDK. On my machine there is no MIDL compiler (midl.exe) under this directory. The solution is to point the CurrentInstallFolder entry to the v7.0A Windows SDK installation folder. While I was there I updated the CurrentVersion and the ProductVersion entries just in case that mattered to anyone else. You’ll need to open another Visual Studio 2008 command prompt to have the build environment paths setup correctly. I sure hope this helps if you too ran into this. And Kevin (looking good by the way) if you run into this again remember to look for this blog post! Share this:TweetEmailPrint Related Kevin Miller | Tags: automation, midl, nant Leave a Comment Click here to cancel reply. Your Message : Subscribe to posts from Kevin Miller Back To Our Blog Recently Popular Posts by this Author How To Setup hMailServer To Use a SSL Certificate Using the Tika Java Library In Your .Net Application With IKVM Correcting a MIDL compiler error - MIDL1001 : cannot open input file Adding a Custom Dialog To Your Wix Installer How to change the URL of your SVN repository Creating Windows Installers Using
any person facing this kind of error.I faced similar error for one of my project givingcommand line error MIDL1001: cannot open input file sapi.idlI solved this issue by just giving Inclue path of sapi.idl in http://clarify.dovetailsoftware.com/kmiller/2010/03/22/correcting-a-midl-compiler-error-midl1001-cannot-open-input-file/ the IDE of Visual Studio 6 intools->options->Directory->Include FilesJust search that where does this sapi.idl resides and then put that path in includes here.Source:http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-70344.html Posted by pranaw at 3:56 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to http://erpranaw.blogspot.com/2011/11/vc-error-midl-command-line-error.html Pinterest No comments: Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Followers Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (18) ▼ November (7) vc++ error: midl : command line error MIDL1001 : c... vc++ error: Cannot open include file: 'test_i.c': ... VC++ 6 error vc++ 6.0 tutorial setting environment variable in visual studio c++ ... How To Delete Registry Keys in Windows XP How To Delete Registry Keys in Windows XP ► August (4) ► June (1) ► May (4) ► February (1) ► January (1) ► 2010 (3) ► December (3) About Me pranaw View my complete profile Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
VC98\Include directory and the directory where the IDL file is that I am building.I get http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php?PHPSESSID=8d46cd4ecb1688be429ab49694ec53e6&topic=2246.0;wap2 the following error:Code: command line error MIDL1001 cannot open input file unknwn.idl If the file is in the VC98\include and the working directory I assume that this error http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22906475/midl-compiler-error-2214 message is not because the file can't be found.I looked the error number up at MSDN and it simply said this:Code:Preprocessor Errors The following error messages are generated command line during preprocessing: ' 'MIDL1001: cannot open input file The specified input file could not be opened. ' 'A lot of help that is!Anyone have any idea what could cause that error? sluggy: You problem may be because of confusion as to what the working (local) directory is. You probably think that the local directory is command line error the one containing the idl file (which is a reasonable assumption), but i bet that the local directory is actually the one that midl is running from.Either put the include file in the same folder as midl.exe, or add the folder to the PATH envvar. As a last resort you could fully qualify the path name in the include statement. Robert Collins: OK, problem solved. There were two problems. One was like you said, sluggy. Just to make it all simple I put everything in the same directory (I didn't want to get into this PATH thingy). That solved the 1st problem about the error message command line error MIDL1001 cannot open input file unknwn.idl. After I got it to compile I encountered a second error: midl\oleaut32.dll : error MIDL2020 : error generating type library : SaveAllChanges Failed . Well, that one was resolved by removing the Read Only attribute from the IDL file.All is good for now. Thanks, sluggy for your quidence. Navigation [0] Message Index
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