>Hello,

>I'm writing firmware using a Makefile in Visual Studio, calling the old
>C 7.0 compiler "CL.EXE".  It works great on one computer, but in setting
>up another one with a fresh installation of VC++ and Visual Studio
>(Enterprise Edition), when I run the Build function (which calls NMAKE
>with my project's makefile), if the compile step encounters errors (i.e.
>my program doesn't compile), the errors aren't displayed in the "Build"
>output window in Visual Studio.  I have things set up as identical on
>these two computers as I can think of.  If I go to a DOS command line
>and manually execute the command under "Build" in the project settings
>like so:

>d:\c700\bin\NMAKE  /a /f FIRMWARE.mak

>I will get all errors which CL.EXE encountered, listed explicitly like
>so:

>Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.20
>Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-92. All rights reserved.
>cahn.c
>Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 7.00
>Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1992. All rights reserved.
>scale.c(1464) : error C2065: 'asdfasdfasdfa' : undeclared identifier
>scale.c(1464) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
>identifier 'I2C_Read'
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\C700\BIN\CL' : return code '2'
>Stop.
>Error executing d:\c700\bin\NMAKE.

>The compile errors are listed.  This is how it should look in the Build
>output window.  But when I execute Rebuild All from within Visual
>Studio, which calls the exact same command:

>d:\c700\bin\NMAKE  /a /f FIRMWARE.mak

>The results in the Build output window are:

>Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.20
>Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-92. All rights reserved.
>cahn.c
>Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 7.00
>Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1992. All rights reserved.
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\C700\BIN\CL' : return code '2'
>Stop.
>Error executing d:\c700\bin\NMAKE.

>Notice the errors are not listed explicitly.  It only says NMAKE failed.

>Again, this works properly on one computer, but on the other, when I run
>the Rebuild All from within Visual Studio I get no errors listed, but
>executing this command in a DOS window on that computer displays the
>errors explicitly like they should be in the Output window of Visual
>Studio.

>Can someone help me figure out what's going on?  If so, please email me
>at:

>Thanks!
>Mark.

> If your build operations produces a .PLG file, you can open it in
> text-mode in dev studio and maybe get a clue as to what command it was
> executing when it failed, i don't know if it puts the error messages
> there though.

> -Bob L.-
>  On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:17:15 -0600, "Mark Malin (old radios)"

> >Hello,

> >I'm writing firmware using a Makefile in Visual Studio, calling the old
> >C 7.0 compiler "CL.EXE".  It works great on one computer, but in setting
> >up another one with a fresh installation of VC++ and Visual Studio
> >(Enterprise Edition), when I run the Build function (which calls NMAKE
> >with my project's makefile), if the compile step encounters errors (i.e.
> >my program doesn't compile), the errors aren't displayed in the "Build"
> >output window in Visual Studio.  I have things set up as identical on
> >these two computers as I can think of.  If I go to a DOS command line
> >and manually execute the command under "Build" in the project settings
> >like so:

> >d:\c700\bin\NMAKE  /a /f FIRMWARE.mak

> >I will get all errors which CL.EXE encountered, listed explicitly like
> >so:

> >Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.20
> >Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-92. All rights reserved.
> >cahn.c
> >Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 7.00
> >Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1992. All rights reserved.
> >scale.c(1464) : error C2065: 'asdfasdfasdfa' : undeclared identifier
> >scale.c(1464) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
> >identifier 'I2C_Read'
> >NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\C700\BIN\CL' : return code '2'
> >Stop.
> >Error executing d:\c700\bin\NMAKE.

> >The compile errors are listed.  This is how it should look in the Build
> >output window.  But when I execute Rebuild All from within Visual
> >Studio, which calls the exact same command:

> >d:\c700\bin\NMAKE  /a /f FIRMWARE.mak

> >The results in the Build output window are:

> >Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.20
> >Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-92. All rights reserved.
> >cahn.c
> >Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 7.00
> >Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1992. All rights reserved.
> >NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\C700\BIN\CL' : return code '2'
> >Stop.
> >Error executing d:\c700\bin\NMAKE.

> >Notice the errors are not listed explicitly.  It only says NMAKE failed.

> >Again, this works properly on one computer, but on the other, when I run
> >the Rebuild All from within Visual Studio I get no errors listed, but
> >executing this command in a DOS window on that computer displays the
> >errors explicitly like they should be in the Output window of Visual
> >Studio.

> >Can someone help me figure out what's going on?  If so, please email me
> >at:

> >Thanks!
> >Mark.