Topic: [solved]Syntax of RC.exe being passed incorrectly

[mrtechguy]

Hey folks,

I am trying to build Apache 2.2.3 with visual c++ 2005 e.

All of the modules however are incorrectly using RC(thus none of the modules are actually being compiled. Is the incorrect usage of RC.exe a VC fault or apache. What might be causing this?

MTG

[tdonovan]

If the error you are getting is

fatal error RC1107: invalid usage; use RC /? for Help

then this is a bug in the Visual Studio IDE.

Resource Preprocessor Definitions which contain spaces are handled incorrectly in Visual Studio.
An example from the libhttpd project is

LONG_NAME="Apache HTTP Server Core"

One way to work around this bug is to replace spaces with non-breaking-space characters.
You can type the non-breaking-space character as Alt+0160 (i.e. hold down the Alt key and hit 0 1 6 0 on the numeric keypad).

For evey project which fails with this error:

Click [Properties] [Configuration Properties] [Resources] [General] [Preprocessor Definitions] [...]
For every definition which contains spaces:
Remove all the double-quote characters in this definition.
Replace each space character with a non-breaking-space character.
Click [OK] [OK]

It is a bit tedious to do this for every project which fails, but it does correct the build error.

Hope this helps,
-tom-

[gthornejr]

I had this same error building Apache 2.2.4 with Visual Studio 2005 Pro. I had to use the download and run the patch mentioned in rkenning's post "How to Build Apache Mod SSL 2.2.n Using Visual C++ Express" - perl cvtdsp.pl -2005
This seems to have addressed the space problem by quoting the entire LONG_NAME argument.

Gary Thorne