Help compiling an idl for an Add-in

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:58:20AM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> The SDK's idlc calls out to a C preprocessor to preprocess the .idl files.
> Normally, it calls the ucpp executable next to itself in the SDK's bin dir.
> I assume that something is broken in the Ubuntu setup, and that idlc calls
> some other preprocessor in a way that does not work.

Ubuntu uses cpp as provided by gcc. This is known not to work with gcc-4.8, but
so far there was no indication for me that it doesnt work with later versions
of gcc.

@lucass: What gcc version do you have installed? (What does "cpp --version" say?)

Best,

Bjoern