On Monday, 22 April 2013 at 17:51:26 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
On 22.04.2013 14:02, Ettienne Gilbert wrote:
Hi,
I've finally gotten round to upgrading my DMD to v2.062 (from
v2.059) -
running on Win XP.
I've had no issues recompiling the (quite old) DFL library I
use with
the latest DMD, so went on to rebuild a tool I previously
developed
(that uses DFL). Everything compiled ok, but the linker choked
on my RES
file. (This project build fine and worked perfectly on
previous versions
of DMD up to and including v2.059). The error is:
OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.12
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010 All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
atrchecker.RES(3) : Error 52: .DEF Syntax Error
DO
I suspect your build script has somehow omitted a ',' from the
command line in its invocation of optlink. The usage is
LINK obj[,out[,map[,lib[,def[,res]]]]]
so if a comma misses, your resource file is interpreted as a
def file.
If you are invoking the linker through dmd, you might want to
check the linker call by adding "-v" to the command line.
Hi Rainer,
I am actually using Visual-D (v0.3.35), so I've tested your idea
by copying + pasting from .\Debug\<ProjectName>.buildlog.html
into a batch file - and then building using this batch file
rather than Visual-D.
And your hunch was spot on! If I modify the the linker invocation
with an extra comma (i.e. as in ...
"C:\dmd2\windows\lib\",,atrchecker.RES/NOMAP/CO/NOI
/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS ..) it builds fine; without the extra comma it
fails with the same error as before.
I suppose this is then a Visual-D issue and not a DMD linker
issue, right?
Regards,
Ettienne
