William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote > > Bing Swen wrote: > > > > There seems to be a bug in the project updating functions of VS2005/08: > > embedded \" char's in the .rc files always made a fatal error to the > > resource compiler (rc.exe), e.g., > > > > "... LONG_NAME="Apache HTTP Server" ..." > > > > If all the inner \" are replaced with \' (namely, """ to "'"), > > then the updated project files (.vcproj) will be OK to compile. > > > > Was this part of the problems with the makefile(s)? > > It's a bug in Visual Studio (already reported when we were meeting with the > a couple Visual Studio development folks in Redmond)... the fix is pretty > weird... > > srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp -2005 > > Now the resulting .dsp files can never be opened again in studio 5/6, but > the quotes are shifted around for purposes of importing.
So is it a good idea to maintain two sets of project files to cope with this problem: one for the old VS 5/6 .dsp files (no more x64 support), and one for VS 2005/08 .vcproj files (with direct x64 support)? Bing
