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Reputation: 13008

Fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler generated file?

"Spontaneously" our VB6 build has started failing with the following error in one project out of several:

Unexpected error occurred in code generator or linker.
fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler generated file: 'D:\path\to\file\frmSomeForm.OBJ': No such file or directory

The form in question is not a new addition and hasn't even been modified.

The PC is not out of disk space or anything like that.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1689

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 13008

It turns out that another developer changed the Path32 line in the project's VBP file to a local path which does not exist on the build machine. Changing it back to the correct value (which is supposed to be a relative path) resolved the issue.

It might also be relevant that the nonexistent path was on a nonexisting drive. (There was no D: drive though the path used this).

(Surprisingly, I couldn't find another example of this in the web so I've added it here... I wanted to look up any official specification for Path32 but I can't find it in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-basic-6/visual-basic-6.0-documentation or anywhere else.)

Upvotes: 1

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