GDI+ library causes “error C2760: syntax error: unexpected token 'identifier', expected 'type specifier'” in VS2017 when compiled for XP

Question

I\'m trying to include the following definitions for GDI+ into my Win32 C++ project that is compiled under Visual Studio 2017:

#include 
#include         


        

Answer 1

There's a way to get this to work if you're prepared to edit the Windows header files.

In objbase.h, comment out line 239 or change it to:

static_assert (std::is_base_of ::value, "pp must derive from IUnknown");

In gdiplusheaders.h, line 891, remove the redundant qualifier (Metafile::).

In gdiplusstringformat.h, line 220, remove the redundant qualifier (StringFormat::).

Hopefully, that will fix things for you without breaking anything.