Debugging CE7 apps using VS2005

If you want to build apps for a CE7 system using visual studio 2005 you can (normally you’d use 2008) if you have an SDK for the Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WinCE7) platform and you follow these steps!

I was getting the following error on linking:

corelibc.lib(armsecgs.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt; recompile module

To work around this:

- Install the hot fix for VS2005 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949009

- Fix any build issues in the project arising from defines not available in VS2005, i.e.:

From imm.h for instance:

DWORD WINAPI ImmGetGuideLineW(HIMC, DWORD dwIndex, _Out_bytecap_(dwBufLen) LPWSTR, DWORD dwBufLen);

To

DWORD WINAPI ImmGetGuideLineW(HIMC, DWORD dwIndex, LPWSTR, DWORD dwBufLen);

Basically removing all “_Out_bytecap_(dwBufLen)” from anything that doesn’t build…

- In the top of one of my files I needed to set

#define __INLINEISEQUALGUID__

As there seem to be two defines for the same named GUID equality function and it causes a link issue.

As the meerkat would say…Simples!