BUG: LNK2019 When Building For Pocket PC Emulation

When building an application for Pocket PC emulation that uses the Windows CE operating system functions, errors similar to the following may be encountered:

These operating system functions use the _stdcall calling convention, but the compiler is declaring them as _cdecl. This problem occurs with the Windows CE Platform SDK for Pocket PC because the functions are incorrectly declared in the Windbase.h file without a linkage type.

Use one of the following workarounds:

• Add the /Gz compiler switch to the configuration's project settings when building for Pocket PC emulation. -or-
  
  
• If the first workaround prevents other functions/libraries from linking in your project, then modify the Windows CE database function declarations in the Windbase.h file. For example, for the error in the "Symptoms" section, change the following declaration

  BOOL CeDeleteDatabase (CEOID oid);
  						

  to read:

  BOOL WINAPI CeDeleteDatabase (CEOID oid);
  					

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug affects the following function classes:

• Windows CE Database
• GDI