How to call CreateEvent() in Windows CE 3.0 ?

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I am making a call to CreateEvent():

hEvent[0] = CreateEvent(NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL);

Simple enough. When this handle is passed to WaitForMultipleObjects()
it returns -1. GetLastError indicates an invalid handle.

So I backtrack and call GetLastError() after the call to CreateEvent().
When I pass this into FormatMessage it says: "This function is only
valid in Win32 mode".

What does this mean ? I am using embedded Visual C++ 4.0 IDE. Target
CPU is set to "Win32(WCE ARMV4) Release".

MSDN for CreateEvent() under Windows CE 3.0 says that I need to link to
Coredll.lib and nk.lib for CreateEvent(). I've added Coredll.lib to
the link tab of my project settings but I can't find nk.lib. MSDN
indicates that nk.lib is part of the kernel. So that means I don't
need to link to it ?

But I am still getting an invalid handle according to
WaitForMultipleObjects() and GetLastError() called after CreateEvent()
still indicates an invalid function.

Can anyone help me on this ?

Brian Jorgage

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