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Crest Teethgel - 04 Jul 2007 22:07 GMT

Hi Everyone!

I am trying to build an Type Library with VS 2005 Express.
When I build the project I get "Error spawning midl.exe".
Does anyone have a clue on this?
The actual output is shown belown.
Thanks for your help.

Command Lines
Creating temporary file "...\IProject2\Debug\RSP00000140283800.rsp" with contents
[
/D "_DEBUG" /mktyplib203 /char signed /env win32 /tlb ".\Debug/IProject2.tlb"

".\IProject2.idl"
]
Creating command line "midl.exe @"...\IProject2\Debug\RSP00000140283800.rsp" /nologo"
Output Window
Creating Type Library...
Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'midl.exe'.

When I do it manually. Everything goes fine.

C:>midl /D "_DEBUG" /mktyplib203 /char signed /env win32 /tlb ".\Debug/IProject
2.tlb" ".\IProject2.idl"
Microsoft (R) 32b/64b MIDL Compiler Version 6.00.0366
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation 1991-2002. All rights reserved.
Processing .\IProject2.idl
IProject2.idl
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\oaidl.idl
oaidl.idl
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\objidl.idl
objidl.idl
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\unknwn.idl
unknwn.idl
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\wtypes.idl
wtypes.idl
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\basetsd.h
basetsd.h
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\guiddef.h
guiddef.h
Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK R2\Include\oaidl.acf
oaidl.acf

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Crest Teethgel - 05 Jul 2007 19:18 GMT

I wrote

> Command Lines
> Creating temporary file "...\IProject2\Debug\RSP00000140283800.rsp" with contents
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> Creating Type Library...
> Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'midl.exe'.

The only thing I see.
Relative path is used inside the generated response file (bad thing).
Like ".\Debug/IProject2.tlb" and ".\IProject2.idl"

This can only work if the starting folder of the spawned command "midl.exe @"...
corresponds to the actual project folder.

Where can I report this bug ?

Crest

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Crest Teethgel - 06 Jul 2007 04:20 GMT

I found it.

I thought that the environment variable path
for cmd.exe and ide were the same.
After verification they were not.

Just added the missing folder to ide.
Now it's ok.

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Cornelius Mende - 27 Sep 2007 18:36 GMT

Hello,

i've similar pbs.
Could you please precise a little more which folder (with which contents) did you add and where exactly?

What should contain the the environment variable path?

Thank's in advance,

Best regards,
Conni

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