Here are the exact steps that I take:
1) Open Visual Studio Community (Running on Windows 8.1)
2) Create New "Win32 Project"
3) In the "Application Settings" menu I have "Windows application" as the application type, I check "Empty project", and I uncheck everything else. Then "finish".
4) I add a new file "test.cpp" under the folder "Source Files"
5) Into test.cpp, I write: #include <windows.h>
At this point, I have 139 errors in my error list. I have appended the build output to the bottom of this post.
I'm very confused, no one else seems to be having this problem. Notice how all the errors are happening at "c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\8.1\", there's another folder in "windows kits" called "8.0", is VS using the wrong Windows SDK?
I have tried reinstalling Visual Studio, and I have tried reinstalling both Windows SDK 8.1 and 8.0.
Thanks for any help!
Pastebin link to errors:
pastebin.com/C4ipZpHd
Update: I have uninstalled VS2013 Community, and installed VS2015. I still can't compile, but the errors are much more readable.
http://pastebin.com/jDBDB4FS. All the build errors appear to be coming from one file: specstrings_undef.h. This is really confusing.