MASM 14: constant expected in winextra.inc-CodePudding

There is an opinion on the Internet that these errors are a trouble in MSVC 2019. However I not found how to solve this problem except advice to install another version of MASM.

winextra.inc from include:

; ...
STD_ALERT struct
    alrt_timestamp dd ?
    alrt_eventname WCHAR  [EVLEN   1] dup(?)  ; Here is A2026
    alrt_servicename WCHAR [SNLEN   1] dup(?) ; Here is A2026
STD_ALERT ends
; ...

So how to solve errors A2026 in winextra without reinstallation MASM to another version?

CodePudding user response：

Older versions of MASM accepted the syntax. The newer versions require replacing the square brackets with parentheses.

; ...
STD_ALERT struct
    alrt_timestamp dd ?
    alrt_eventname WCHAR  (EVLEN   1) dup(?)  ; Corrected
    alrt_servicename WCHAR (SNLEN   1) dup(?) ; Corrected
STD_ALERT ends
; ...