Yet another obscure error message that makes no sense.


OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
OPTLINK : Error 118: Filename Expected
Path=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA
Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft SQL
Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Nemerle\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET
Web Pages\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\D\dm\bin;C:\Program
Files
(x86)\GtkSharp\2.12\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Go\bin;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Gtk+\bin

^
--- errorlevel 1
Building Debug\AutoExec.exe failed!
Details saved as
"file://d:\documents\Programming\code.d\AutoExec\AutoExec\AutoExec\Debug\AutoExec.buildlog.html"
Solution build stopped.
StopOnFirstBuildError: Build cancelled because project AutoExec
failed to build.
Build has been canceled.
Build Summary
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00:00.148 - Failed  - AutoExec\AutoExec.visualdproj
00:00.000 - Success -
..\..\..\Include.D\Infinity\Standard\Infinity.Standard.visualdproj

Total build time: 00:00.155

On 8/8/2012 4:11 PM, anon wrote:
> Yet another obscure error message that makes no sense.

I suspect it's the ( ) you have in the file names.

On 09/08/2012 01:34, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 4:11 PM, anon wrote:
>> Yet another obscure error message that makes no sense.
>
> I suspect it's the ( ) you have in the file names.


I've seen optlink failures before due to the '+' in GTK+ (don't recall the exact error message though).

Sounds like http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5860 ?

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 00:35:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 4:11 PM, anon wrote:
>> Yet another obscure error message that makes no sense.
>
> I suspect it's the ( ) you have in the file names.

I suspect you ought to fix your linker. "Program Files (x86)" is
a standard folder on 64-bit Windows.

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, anon wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 00:35:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/8/2012 4:11 PM, anon wrote:
>>> Yet another obscure error message that makes no sense.
>>
>> I suspect it's the ( ) you have in the file names.
>
> I suspect you ought to fix your linker. "Program Files (x86)" is
> a standard folder on 64-bit Windows.

I know, but it won't happen tomorrow.

On Friday, 10 August 2012 at 08:02:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, anon wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 00:35:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 8/8/2012 4:11 PM, anon wrote:
>>>> Yet another obscure error message that makes no sense.
>>>
>>> I suspect it's the ( ) you have in the file names.
>>
>> I suspect you ought to fix your linker. "Program Files (x86)" is
>> a standard folder on 64-bit Windows.
>
> I know, but it won't happen tomorrow.

Then the D language will not be usable tomorrow.