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Subject: Re: [OT] Weird MSVC++ 6.0 /sp5 error when compiling Crafty

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 09:16:02 07/01/04

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On July 01, 2004 at 07:46:23, David Mitchell wrote:

>On July 01, 2004 at 06:37:52, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>I have had some problems compiling the latest version of Crafty, so I thought I
>>would re-install MSVC 6.0.
>>
>>Now when I goto compile Crafty I get this error:
>>
>>x1.c
>>x1.c(1): catastrophic error: could not open source file "stdio.h"
>>  #include <stdio.h>
>>                    ^
>>compilation aborted for x1.c (code 4)
>>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'xicl6.exe' : return code '0x4'
>>Stop.
>>Error executing NMAKE.
>>
>>zzzzzz.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>>
>>Now I have looked on my system and those two files are not there.. I have tried
>>re-installing MSVC 6.0 now 6 times, and it still does not come back.
>>
>>Does anyone know how to fix this? Or where those two files should be?
>>
>>Peter
>
>On my MSVC 6.0, stdio.h is in:
>
>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include
>
>Very standard place for it, I believe. I don't have the file, "x1.c", nor do I
>believe you'll have that error after you get stdio.h into it's correct drive and
>directory.
>
>Check your \Include directory, and if you still can't find the stdio.h file,
>just copy it from the CD to your include directory. That should do it.
>
>No idea why it wouldn't copy it there in the first place.
>
>Dave

Hi Dave,

Actually it is there, it just won't open it. I have copied it over the old one
from the cd, and it still will not work. Any ideas?

Peter.



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