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From: drezac@dcscg1.UUCP (Duane L. Rezac)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with Quick C 2.0, from novice user
Message-ID: <576@dcscg1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 11:53:29 GMT
References: <6700@max.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus
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From article <6700@max.u.washington.edu>, by bridge@max.u.washington.edu:
> Recently I upgraded from Quick C 1.1 to Quick C 2.0.  I am a novice C 
> programmer and I have followed a book to learn to write C programs.  All
> my programs (small, less than 50 lines) can't be compiled to an .EXE file.
> I got the error message:
> 
> Make: Fatal Error U1077: 'LINK.EXE': return code -1
> 
> I check the the On-line Help and also the manual and still can't figure
> out what is going on.  I have a hard time finding what the return code
> -1 means.
> 
> Could somebody tell me what I may do to avoid this error?  This only
> happens when I use the integrated enviroment (i.e. use shift-F5).  I 
> can compile my program using qcl or link at the DOS prompt without
> any problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I had a the same problem. It seems that Microsoft has several versions of a link floating around, all with the same name. In my case, Quick C was trying to use the link in my c:\dos directory instead of the link that was in my qc2\bin directory. The solution: I renamed my link in my dos directory so that the only link that was named "link" was the one that came with QC 2.0 .  I hope this helps.













Duane L. Rezac




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