Re: [Openexr-devel] Problems ysing OpenEXR with Visual C++ 6.0

[Florian Kainz]

You may have to upgrade to Visual C++ 7.  OpenEXR uses
a lot of templates, and Visual C++ 6 doesn't like that.

Alternatively, you may be able to use the C interface
defined in ImfCRgbaFile.h.

Florian


Seon Joo Kim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a first time user of OpenEXR and I'm having some problems starting.
> All I want to do is to write OpenEXR files.
> I'm using the windows precompiled version (.hr & .lib files) from 
> OpenEXR-1.2.2-win32 (using MSVC 6).
> I'm having problems in including a header file.
> When I include the "ImfRgbaFile.h" (#include "ImfRgbaFile.h"), I get 54 
> errors.
>
> Some example are
> - F: \ToneMapping\OpenEXR-1.2.2-win32\include\IlmImf\ImfName.h(82) : 
> error C2258: illegal pure syntax, must be '= 0'
> - F:\ToneMapping\OpenEXR-1.2.2-win32\include\IlmImf\ImfName.h(103) : 
> error C2065: 'MAX_LENGTH' : undeclared identifier
> - F:\ToneMapping\OpenEXR-1.2.2-win32\include\Imath\ImathVec.h(635) : 
> error C2955: 'Vec2' : use of class template requires template argument list
>       F:\ToneMapping\OpenEXR-1.2.2-win32\include\Imath\ImathVec.h(247) : 
> see declaration of 'Vec2'
> - F:\ToneMapping\OpenEXR-1.2.2-win32\include\IlmImf\ImfRgbaFile.h(114) : 
> error C2440: 'default argument' : cannot convert from 'class 
> Imath::Vec2<float>' to     'const class Imath::Vec2<float>'  No copy 
> constructor available for class 'Imath::Vec2<float>'
>
>
> Any ideas how I can solve this problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Seon Joo