I am having a very strange problem with Visual Studio 2008. I searched here on SO for similar problems with the “Project Out of Date” dialog, but their problem was that either they were using a header file that is deprecated/no longer exists, or their problem was occuring while building a multi-project solution or it had other dependencies.
My project is a Win32 Console application, I went to File->New->Project…->Win32 Console Application. I used the default settings (precompiled header is checked), and I didn’t change a single line of code in the project, as soon as the project created I pressed the debug button (though I get the exact same problem when I set the build target to Release).
[main.cpp]
#include "stdafx.h"
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
return 0;
}
^ Very standard source file, right? Well, no matter what I build in any project VS2008 tells me it is out of date. Why? This problem may not prevent me from building the project, but I would very much like everything to be in order and never have to see this dialog again. Again, I looked at similar questions, but their solutions involve removing some extra dependency or something of the sort, none of which applies to my situation.
Why might VS2008 be nit-picking on its own project template?
If a source file (including include files) somehow got a date time some time in the future, then the compiler will think the object files are always out of date.