Winres.h copilation error in CryEngine EaaS

Question

I am new to Cryengine and I am trying to build custom Game DLL for my game. But first, I tried to compile CryGameZero DLL and I came up with some compilation errors.

I am using VS2013 Professional.

Error RC1015: cannot open include file 'winres.h'.
    c:\...\CRYENGINE\BinTemp\rc_files\CryGameZero.auto_gen.rc 
    10 1 CryGameZero

Error MSB3073: The command "cd /d
    "c:\...\CRYENGINE" & cry_waf.exe 
    build_win_x86_profile --project-spec gamezero
    --execsolution="c:\...\CRYENGINE\Solutions\CRYENGINE.sln"
    --targets=CryGameZero" exited with code 1.
    c:\...\CRYENGINE\_WAF_\msbuild\waf_build.targets
    69 3 CryGameZero

I checked in my VC++ Directories and I had C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\include\um but winres.h was not in that directory so I changed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um where is winres.h located but I still get the same error.

Does anybody had the same problem or know how to fix this. I was searching on Google but so far I found documentation and tutorials on doing this with older versions of Cryengine without WAF and using VS2010 or VS2012.

This error is produced by the resource compiler (RC), not the C++ compiler. Project > Properties > Resources > General > Additional Include Directories setting. — Hans Passant, Sep 28 '15 at 12:58
But I have Additional Include Directory under Project > Properties > Configuration Properties > WAF — Milos Miskone Sretin, Sep 28 '15 at 13:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '15 at 19:11

I found a solution for this problem.

Here is the solution step by step. First check for WAF configuration.

cry_waf.exe configure --auto-detect-verbose True
   --generate-vs-projects-automatically False

In my case, WAF was automaticaly detecting MSVC and Win SDK versions and fout

MSVC 11.0
MSVC 12.0

And automaticaly set it to MSVC 11.0 because that was first in the list. The same goes with Win SDK versions, found

SDK 8.0
SDK 8.1

Amd automatically set to 8.0

Since I am using Visual Studio 2013, According to Crytek documentation you need to set versions of MSVC and Win SDK to suite your VS version

VS Version    VC++ Version    Recomended Win SDK
2012          11.0            8.0
2013          12.0            8.1
2015          14.0            10.0.10240.0

NOTE FOR VS2015: Early installations of Visual Studio 2015 may have installed 10.0.10150.0 instead. In this scenario, re-run the Visual Studio installer and select the recommended version.

Set that to appropriate versions, clean solution and build again made all as good as it needs to be.

Winres.h copilation error in CryEngine EaaS

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