[Snort-devel] Compiling Snort w/ MSVC

From: Peter Silberman <peterjsilberman(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 17:23:06 EDT

I m getting an error I have never seen before, when I try to compile snort using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, I get this error:
erforming Custom Build Step on "..\WIN32-Code\name.mc"

MC: may only specify one message file to compile.
MC: may only specify one message file to compile.
MC: may only specify one message file to compile.

Microsoft (R) Message Compiler Version 1.00.5239 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1992-1995. All rights reserved.
usage: MC [-?vcdwso] [-m maxmsglen] [-h dirspec] [-e extension] [-r dirspec] [-x dbgFileSpec] [-u] [-U] filename.mc

-? - displays this message
-v - gives verbose output.
-c - sets the Customer bit in all the message
Ids.

-d - FACILTY and SEVERITY values in header file
in decimal.

            Sets message values in header to decimal initially.

-w - warns if message text contains non-OS/2
compatible inserts.

-s - insert symbolic name as first line of each
message.

-o - generate OLE2 header file (use HRESULT
definition instead of

            status code definition)


       -m maxmsglen - generate a warning if the size


of any message exceeds
                      maxmsglen characters.


       -h pathspec - gives the path of where to create


the C include file
                     Default is .\


       -e extension - Specify the extension for the


header file.
                      From 1 - 3 chars.


       -r pathspec - gives the path of where to create


the RC include file
                     and the binary message resource
files it includes.
                     Default is .\


       -x pathspec - gives the path of where to create


the .dbg C include
                        file that maps message Ids to
their symbolic name.


       -u - input file is Unicode.


       -U - messages in .BIN file should be Unicode.


       filename.mc - gives the names of a message text
file
                     to compile.
       Generated files have the Archive bit cleared.

Error executing c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe.

snort.exe - 1 error(s), 1 warning(s)

Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks

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