Microsoft KB Archive/92606

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FIX: LINK Error L1098 From DEF File INCLUDE Statement

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Q92606

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft LINK for MS-DOS, version 5.31.009

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SYMPTOMS
When the Microsoft Linker (LINK) version 5.31.009 is used to link a an application using information from a module definition (DEF) file and the DEF file contains an INCLUDE directive of the following form

"INCLUDE basename.ext" LINK generates the following error message:

fatal error L1098: cannot open include file 'basename'

- No such file or directory

even though the file BASENAME.EXT exists.

CAUSE
LINK version 5.31.009, requires single quotation marks (') to delimit a file name that includes an extension. This requirement is not present in previous versions of LINK.

RESOLUTION
Place single quotation marks around the file name in the INCLUDE directive. For example, the following directive in a DEF file includes the BASENAME.EXT file:

"INCLUDE 'basename.ext'"

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in LINK version 5.31.009. This problem was corrected in LINK version 5.5, distributed with Microsoft Visual C++ version 1.0 for Windows.

Additional query words: 7.00 7.00a 5.30 5.3x

Keywords : kb16bitonly

Issue type :

Technology : kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword3 kbLINKSearch kbLINK53109DOS