FIX: Wrong Output Library Name Used with VCNT Makefile
Article ID: 117834
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Workbench for Windows
This article was previously published under Q117834
SYMPTOMS
When you use the makefile created by the Visual Workbench for Windows
NT on a command line, or as an external makefile to build a static library,
the output library name is not formed as the project name plus the .LIB
extension. Instead, the library name is formed using the base name of the
first object module specified on the output-dependency line in the
makefile.
RESOLUTION
Currently, there are not any flags that can be set from the Visual
Workbench to change this behavior. However, you can use the following
workarounds by modifying the makefile directly:
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the products listed at the
beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Visual C++ version
2.0.
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Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbide KB117834