Hi, I have this RC file that comes from the Petzold and that will not compile with wrc. The reason it will not compile is that it includes an include file, resource.h, which contains: UINT CALLBACK StylePageProc (HWND, UINT, LPPROPSHEETPAGE) ; The reason it does not compile is that WRC does not consider this to be a function declaration. To wrc a function declaration has 2 identifiers followed by an opening parenthesis. Here, even after the preprocessing, we have three. In fact we may have even more. The well-known 'extern const unsigned long int* foo()' immediately comes to mind. I checked how rc (from VC6) handles this and made the following observations: - you cannot put even a basic 'int foo();' in the RC file - you can put any garbage you want in any of the included files - the only things that rc checks for in included files are: - comments /*...*/ and // - strings, sort of (there's something fishy happening if you put a '\' at the end of the line - preprocessor directives, i.e. lines starting with a # - no, it does not care about balanced parenthesis, braces, semi-olons or anything of the sort On the other hand wrc tries very hard to preprocess everything correctly. But should we really do this? Wouldn't it be simpler and better (for compatibility) to just tell the preprocessor not to worry about what's in include files like rc does? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]
