Installing the RPC Programming Environment

You develop RPC distributed applications, for all supported platforms, on the 32-bit Windows NT platform. Although the 16-bit MIDL compiler is no longer supported, you can develop 16-bit code by doing the following:

1. Use the 32-bit MIDL compiler installed as part of Win32 SDK Setup.
2. Select the MS-DOS or Windows 3.x option of the MIDL /env command line switch.
3. Compile your MS-DOS or Windows 3.x application and RPC stubs using your 16-bit development environment.

When the Win32 SDK is installed, the RPC development environment and the run-time libraries are automatically installed. For the 32-bit Windows platform, no additional installation is required.

Note  See Building RPC Applications for information about various build environments.