error C2678: binary '+': no operator found (DCMTK 3.6.4 & VS2017_x64)

[eninyo]

hello,
i download DCMTK version 3.6.4. run CMake and compile it with VS2017 64bit.
i didn't set any special flag.

while i'm compiling my application, i get the following error in a file thaat is not mine and i'm not using.

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...\include\dcmtk\oflog\tracelog.h:59: error: C2678: binary '+': no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'const wchar_t [8]' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

i don't use UNICODE. the INSTALL VS project has "Use Multi-Byte Character Set".

so i don't understand what i can do?
is it a known bug in v3.6.4?

thanks in advance,

[Jan Schlamelcher]

No, we don't know about that and VS 2017 works well in our Nightlybuilds. I, therefore, consider it more likely that it is either a configuration problem or a problem with your VS setup (e.g. wrong platform SDK installed). The error in line 59 suggests that log4cplus::tstring got defined as std::wstring while it should be std::string, no clue what step in your configuration had that effect though.

[eninyo]

hi,
the problem is not when compiling the DCMTK library.
it happens when i compile my application that use (link) to the DCMTK.
my solution was manually write #undef UNICODE above the problematic line, but i want to know if there is a more supportive way to do it without changing the code of DCMTK.

thanks in advance,
Eliah

[J. Riesmeier]

The solution would be to adapt your project settings so that neither UNICODE nor _UNICODE is defined.