stdafx.h: no such file or directory - what to do?

hi everybody

i'm brand new in this area - i have read the C++ tutorial and began with the OpenGL tuts.

i have made it as far as "A First Windows Application" (A First Windows Application - Cprogramming.com), where i copied the code example into Code::Blocks to see how it works - but i doesn't :S

i get the error: "stdafx.h: No such file or directory"

i've searched my entire pc for that file, but it doesnt seems to exist - what should i do?

thanks in advance from the all green cpp-programmer

merry christmas

//splazz

Just remove the line of code that involves "stdafx.h". You can about what it means later as it is not important to you right now.

Using Visual Studio by any chance? If so, then you might want to look into precompiled headers. Either use it or disable it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.71%29.aspx

It's better to disable precompiled headers, they are more pain than its worth. On a modern computer, they really don't save you any compile time unless you are including thousands of headers in a million lines of code application.

thanks for the quick replies :)

but doesnt it include functions that i need? if it doesnt, then i dont understand why it's included :s

as i said in my starting post, i'm using Code::Blocks - how do i disable precompiled headers?

//splazz

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Originally Posted by abachler

It's better to disable precompiled headers, they are more pain than its worth. On a modern computer, they really don't save you any compile time unless you are including thousands of headers in a million lines of code application.

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An individual opinion rather than a fact.
Just include windows.h. Time it with and without precompiled headers. Big difference.
They are not a lot of pain, really. Just stick #include "stdafx.h" into every source file and it will compile. Big pain? I think not.

As for the original question, if you see any #include "stdafx.h" in the code you copy, remove the line. Hopefully, this should fix it.

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Originally Posted by splazz

thanks for the quick replies :)

but doesnt it include functions that i need? if it doesnt, then i dont understand why it's included :s

as i said in my starting post, i'm using Code::Blocks - how do i disable precompiled headers?

//splazz

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precompiled headers is a visual studios thing that codeblocks does not do (to my knowledge). Like everyone has said, remove the stdafx.h line and include the appropriately needed headers.

GCC (which Code::Block uses) certainly does support precompiled headers, but transparently, using .gch files.