structure improperly intialized in windows.inc

[J0HN]

I'm new so this might be something stupid... but any program i attempt to build that includes windows.inc i get lots of syntax errors for structures, and ones saying structure improperly initialized. anyone know what i can do?

[sluggy]

At what point in your source file are you including windows.inc?

[u]

Hmm iirc, I had the same problem with masm8 (ml.exe, not the package), found the structures and made them masm8-compatible. But the version of masm8 I had was very buggy.

[MichaelW]

The symptoms you describe could be caused by not including this line in the source above the point where windows.inc is included:

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option casemap :none       ; case sensitive


The original Microsoft include files depend on case sensitivity. To pick one example from windows.inc to illustrate the problem:

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LUID STRUCT
  LowPart   DWORD      ?
  HighPart  DWORD      ?
LUID ENDS
...
LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES STRUCT
    Luid LUID <>
    Attributes dd ?
LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES ENDS

Here the problem is that without case sensitivity "Luid" = "LUID".