Re: VC++ 1998 Compiled resource not overwritten
You are approaching this from the wrong end. Have each project
put its intermediate files in a spearate directory and keep only the
output directory shared. Voila - problem disappeared...
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"Guy" <guhar1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I have several project all linking into my output dir Release\P1.DLL.
Each project have a resource file, compiled into Release\Script1.res
The problem is that the Script1.res file is not overwritten if I dont
change the Script1.rc of the projet. So I have to "touch" manually the
file to get the compiler to compile the resource all the time.
I would like to have a build step to delete the Release\Script1.res
file, but if I insert this in a Pre-Link step, its too late, the
linker complains it cannot find the .res file.
Where can I insert a pre-compile step to delete my res file ?
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