[CMake] Problem with linker on win32

[David Cole]

See also the questions here, also regarding "error C2018" :

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1169670/how-to-interpret-error-c2018-unknown-character-0x40


On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:12 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> If you delete "CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj" and try again, do
> you get the same error? (Maybe the obj file got built corrupted
> somehow the first time around...?)
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Is there a funky hard-coded string constant in exeUtg.cxx ?
>>
>> Can you send the contents of that source file or is it private?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:43 AM,  <uruloki at free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> We are using PCCTS compiler to build a parser for config files.  *.o files are the results of the language definition.
>>> I have not integrated this part of the build in CMake yet so i'm just linking with .o files built with the previous production toolchain. Those files are linked in the dll.
>>>
>>> Here is the problem i'm referring to when the executable is linked:
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Linking CXX executable exeUtg.exe
>>> cd E:/devlop/test_cmake/UTG/exeUtg && O:/DevStudio/VC98/Bin/CL.EXE   @CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/objects1.rsp  /c /TP  /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /W3 /Zm1000 /GX /GR /MD  -DWIN32 -D_WINNT -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -D_RWTOOLSDLL -D_AFXDLL /nologo /D_DEBUG /MD /Zi  /Ob0 /Od /GZ /FeexeUtg.exe /FdE:/devlop/test_cmake/UTG/exeUtg/exeUtg.pdb -link /implib:exeUtg.lib /version:0.0    /subsystem:console  libUtg.lib
>>> exeUtgLibelles.cxx.obj
>>> CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x1'
>>> CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x1f'
>>> CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0xab'
>>> CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj(1) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'k'
>>> CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj(1) : error C2501: 'L' : missing storage-class or type specifiers
>>> CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/exeUtg.cxx.obj(1) : fatal error C1004: unexpected end of file found
>>> make[2]: *** [exeUtg/exeUtg.exe] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [exeUtg/CMakeFiles/exeUtg.dir/all] Error 2
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> You can see make uses CL to link and build the executable, and it fails.
>>> Could it be because of the file extension we are using for c++ file?  soureces are hxx and cxx files.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your support
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Mail Original -----
>>> De: "David Cole" <david.cole at kitware.com>
>>> À: uruloki at free.fr
>>> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
>>> Envoyé: Vendredi 2 Septembre 2011 13h21:12 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
>>> Objet: Re: [CMake] Problem with linker on win32
>>>
>>> What is the error output?
>>>
>>> How are the *.o files that are in your source tree built?
>>>
>>
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