Question

I’m creating a kinect project in Visual Studio 2008 using OpenNi, NITE and OpenGL.

At random times dureing development I get the following error:

Error result 1 returned from ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\rc.exe’.

I’ve searched the internet with no luck.

I am able to create a new project and copy all my code across and it works fine but this is not something I want to be doing multiple times each day.

If any more info is required I’d be happy to give it.

EDIT full output window reads

1>------ Build started: Project: PointViewer, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Compiling resources...
1>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0
1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
1>fatal error RC1110: could not open ..\Res\NITE.rc
1>Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 1 returned from 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\rc.exe'.
1>Build log was saved at "file://d:\Documents\Uni work\Year 4\Personal Project\Samples \PointViewer\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>PointViewer - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Answer 1

You are referencing your RC file via a relative path (..).
It seems likely your current directory is changing, and hence .., and the path to your RC file changes, causing the error.

You will have to make sure that your RC file is referred to in a way that doesn’t change.
Try removing it from the project, and re-adding it, taking care to refer to it only in absolute terms.

Check your project and build settings for the directory where the build is to start, and how the filename is preserved in the project settings. You’re looking for something like “Persist Filenames As…”.