Meaningless compiler error message

[DavidWhite]

I have a solution space with 7 projects, all Fortran, consisting of some 80 or so source files. Today I changed about 10 lines in one source file, and when compiling the project get the error:

Error: The operation could not be completed
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 6 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Rebuilding make no difference. Before making the code changes, earlier today, I successfully rebuilt the project in Release mode, then changed toDebug mode, rebuilt and ran the project.

It is not helpful to have such an obscure and uninformative error message.

David

[DavidWhite]

After posting the last message, I was able to resolve the error by closing and reopening VS2005!!!

(For reference, I am using 10.1.024)

David

[onkelhotte]

Maybe "cleaning solution" before "rebuilding solution" should help too...

markus

[Les_Neilson]

Did you look in the build log file ?
Whenever I have had this message it has been due to the resource compiler rc.exe and not the fortran compiler.

Les