Error in winbase.h

[tofiffe]

#include <iostream>

//the following line is necessary for the
//  GetConsoleWindow() function to work!
//it basically says that you are running this
//  program on Windows 2000 or higher
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500

//it is important that the above line be typed
//  BEFORE <windows.h> is included
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main (void)
{
  HWND console = GetConsoleWindow();
  RECT r;
  GetWindowRect(console, &r); //stores the console's current dimensions

  //MoveWindow(window_handle, x, y, width, height, redraw_window);
  MoveWindow(console, r.left, r.top, 800, 600, TRUE);
  for (int j = 0; j < 100; ++j)
    {
      for (int i = 0x41; i < 0x5B; ++i)
        cout << (char)i;
    }
  cout << endl;
  Sleep(1000);
  MoveWindow(console, r.left, r.top, r.right - r.left, r.bottom - r.top, TRUE);
}

this is what i was looking at trying to resise my window. i've done everything it says, but now i get an error in winbase.h, namely this one: fatal error C1012: unmatched parenthesis : missing ')'

now in the library this is the code that has the error:

#if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500)
#if defined(_M_ALPHA)
#define MoveMemoryVlm RtlMoveMemory
#define CopyMemoryVlm RtlCopyMemory
#define FillMemoryVlm RtlFillMemory
#define ZeroMemoryVlm RtlZeroMemory
#endif
#endif 

so what do i have to do to fix it?

[kevinkjt2000]

I'm not sure why that code won't compile on your system. Using the GNU g++ compiler, I just got it to compile fine like this:

#if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500)
#if defined(_M_ALPHA)
#define MoveMemoryVlm RtlMoveMemory
#define CopyMemoryVlm RtlCopyMemory
#define FillMemoryVlm RtlFillMemory
#define ZeroMemoryVlm RtlZeroMemory
#endif
#endif
int main(void){
    return 0; }

[tofiffe]

yes that piece compiles fine, but when i try to compile the code on top the error pops up

[DSLq5Di1]

What IDE are you using? try updating your Windows SDK,
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3138

[tofiffe]

i installed that and the error is still the same...

[DSLq5Di1]

What IDE are you using?

Simply installing the SDK isn't going to change a thing if you don't also update the include and lib paths of your IDE..

[zb0S216C]

---[Content Revoked]---

This works perfectly fine. You're SDK is clearly old. Either get a modern IDE, or, update your SDK.

_Wazzak