Article ID: 142421
Article Last Modified on 10/24/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Learning Edition
This article was previously published under Q142421
SYMPTOMS
If the /Tp or /Tc compiler option is used in a project built within the Developer Studio, one of the following errors occurs:
-or-
RESOLUTION
To work around the problem:
- Build the project from the command line. For example:
nmake /f <projectname.mak>
NOTE: You may need to run Vcvars32.bat from the \Msdev\Bin directory to set up the environment variables needed to build from the command line. -or-
- Rename the source files to have the needed extension so the /Tp or /Tc option is not needed.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Visual C++ 4.1.
MORE INFORMATION
The /Tc option specifies that the file is a C source file, even if it doesn't have a .c extension. The /Tp option specifies that the file is a C++ source file, even if it doesn't have a .cpp or .cxx extension. These options worked for projects built within the Visual C++ 2.x environment. If you convert a project from version 2.x to 4.0 that has these options, you will get the previously described error.
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