Visual Build professional compile errors?

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Visual Build professional compile errors?

I am using visual build professional and one of the steps is a 'Make VS 2003' (c++ project). However, every time I get the following error:

fatal error C1033: cannot open program database ''

If I compile the project myself in visual studios it works fine.

Anyone know why this would be, or how I can fix it?

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I think I have gotten that error in the past when I have an old .pdb file (or one that was somehow corrupted). If so, the error message should indicate which file it is. You should be able to manually delete that file. I think it has often been vc60.pdb.

There is also some information about this error on msdn.

Mark Wilkins 2010-02-03 21:27:09

Thanks for the suggestion. I have cleaned up the projects (removed all pdb's) but I am still getting this error.

Zenox 2010-02-04 14:34:47

@Zenox: What is the command you are using to fire off the build? Also, is there more information included in the error message?

Mark Wilkins 2010-02-04 14:42:12

The command line option that gets generated for this is:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.com" D:\project.vcproj /build "Release DLL" /project D:\project.vcprojIf I run this from the command-line it compiles successfully!There is no more detail in the error log. I am going to also post on the kinook forum and see if they have any suggestions.

Zenox 2010-02-04 20:27:12

@Zenox: Are you sure that is the correct path to devenv? The path indicates it is VS2003. In your post, you said it was VS2008. I would think the error would be different in that case. The other thing you might look at is the output path for the build. If it is different than the normal "release" directory under the project, maybe it has an old .pdb file?

Mark Wilkins 2010-02-04 22:20:57

Sorry, my original post should have said 2003 (legacy project not updated to 2008 yet). The path is correct (I can compile this from the command line and it works :S). I will check the output and manually clean all of the PDB's and see if this improves anything. Thanks!

Zenox 2010-02-05 13:30:39

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