C2054/C2085/C2143/C4013 errors when building AWS SDK API C++

[RichDee]

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Platform/OS/Hardware/Device
What are you running the sdk on? Windows 8.1 Professional (x64) (build 9600.19728) / Dell OptiPlex 9020 00

Describe the question
I am endeavoring to build the AWS SDK API (CPP) on my Windows 8.1 Professional (x64) (build 9600.19728) development workstation.

I downloaded the latest "aws sdk cpp" / "AWS SDK for C++" master branch from:
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp

However, running cmake yields the following errors (n.b., the complete cmake stdout/stderr output is in the attached file):
...
crc_sw.c
E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums\source\crc_sw.c(1130): error C2054: expected '(' to follow 'inline' [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums-build\aws-checksums.vcxproj] [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\AwsChecksums.vcxproj]
E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums\source\crc_sw.c(1134): error C2085: 's_crc_generic_align' : not in formal parameter list [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums-build\aws-checksums.vcxproj] [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\AwsChecksums.vcxproj]
E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums\source\crc_sw.c(1134): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{' [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums-build\aws-checksums.vcxproj] [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\AwsChecksums.vcxproj]
E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums\source\crc_sw.c(1222): warning C4013: 's_crc_generic_align' undefined; assuming extern returning int [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\build\src\AwsChecksums-build\aws-checksums.vcxproj] [E:\Debugging\myfolder\Inventory\AWS SDK API.deps\AwsChecksums.vcxproj]
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:235 (message):
Failed to build third-party libraries.
StdoutAndStderr.txt

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I am using the latest version of cmake:
$ cmake --version
cmake version 3.17.3

Logs/output
If applicable, add logs or error output.

To enable logging, set the following system properties:

REMEMBER TO SANITIZE YOUR PERSONAL INFO

options.loggingOptions.logLevel = Aws::Utils::Logging::LogLevel::Trace;
Aws::InitAPI(options)

[KaibaLopez]

Hi @RichDee ,
These kind of errors are usually related to the compiler you're using, for example C2054 happens because of inline.... from microsoft documentation:

The inline keyword is available only in C++. The __inline and __forceinline keywords are available in both C and C++.

So the first thing I'd like to ask while I set up to test this, can you verify that you have visual studio 15 or later installed? and that cmake is trying to use C++ 11?

[RichDee]

I am running an earlier version of VS: "Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013 with Update 4" -- version 12.0.40629.

There are a lot of C++ distributables on the workstation -- from VS C++ 2005 / v 8.x to VS C++ 2015 / v14.0.x

Oh, I see now -- the README says:

Minimum Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2015 or later
• OR GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.9 or later
• OR Clang 3.3 or later
• 4GB of RAM
  • 4GB of RAM is required to build some of the larger clients. The SDK build may fail on EC2 instance types t2.micro, t2.small and other small instance types due to insufficient memory.

Let me see if I have a workstation that meets those requirments...

[KaibaLopez]

While you're at that, I may be wrong but I believe that if you have the distributables installed you should be able to tell cmake to build it for vs 2015 by adding the -G attribute to the command:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A x64

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[RichDee]

So I upgraded my VS to VS2019.

Here's my current build environment:

• Windows 8.1 Professional (x64) (build 9600.19728)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019 16.6.2
• cmake version 3.17.3

Now when I try to build the AWS SDK, it gets a lot farther but I get errors (see attached file) when compiling 8 of the thousands of src files:

• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\FSxClient.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\Backup.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\DescribeFileSystemsResult.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\CreateFileSystemFromBackupResult.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\CreateBackupResult.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\UpdateFileSystemResult.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\CreateFileSystemResult.cpp
• aws-sdk-cpp-master\aws-cpp-sdk-fsx\source\model\DescribeBackupsResult.cpp

AWS_SDK_VS2019_COMPILE_ERRORS.txt