Article ID: 121018
Article Last Modified on 12/1/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Workbench for Windows, when used with:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2.1
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q121018
SYMPTOMS
Building a project that uses one of the special characters shown below works correctly in the Visual Workbench. But an attempt to build the same project from a command session fails, returning this error:
CAUSE
This is limitation of the NMAKE utility included with the products listed above. The following legitimate characters cause this problem:
$, %, @, #, !, ^, (, ), {, }, [, ], -, and the space character.
When one of them is used in a path specification, Visual C++ puts quotation marks around the file specification in several places within the makefile. NMAKE cannot process files specified in this way.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem:
- Avoid using any of these special characters. -or-
- Modify the makefile to remove the quotation marks and use the project as an external makefile when using the Visual C++ Workbench to launch the build. -or-
- Always use the Visual C++ Workbench to build the project.
Additional query words: quotes
Keywords: kbide kbprb KB121018
