Linker error in C

Good day everyone, i have a C code in which while compiling i get the below error...

Code:

------ Build started: Project: Biodata, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
Biodata_main.c
Biodata_mcc_component_data.c
Generating Code...
Linking...
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'D:\Documents.obj'
Build log was saved at "file://d:\Documents and Settings\olawale\Desktop\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\Biodata\Biodata\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
Biodata - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

can anyone please suggest what to do

You must have a project in the solution that either creates the documents.obj or relies on it somehow. The linker cannot open it. It is either in use already or it cannot find it. Restart Visual Studio, clean, rebuild, and run it. If you get the same error then check your project settings. You may need to specify the intermediate directory in your debugging options.

that either creates the documents.obj or relies on it somehow.

I do not think this is the case...

Seems like linker wants to find some file like
d:\Documents and Settings\olawale\Desktop\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\Biodata\Biodata\Debug\obj\...

and instead takes only the path till the first space...

Probably - missing "" around some path

PS. You can try to take the last Biodata folder - containing the project, move it to D:\ and try to compile from that location...

Perhaps but hard to diagnose without more info or being there. Linker errors are never fun.

thanks everyone for the prompt response, i'll try to what ya'll gave and get back to you guyz...thanks so much..bye

guyz it aint working...already tried all what you did...do i post the code here instead???

Originally Posted by walataza

guyz it aint working...already tried all what you did...do i post the code here instead???

I doubt code will help - it is something with linker settings

What IDE you are using?

Could you go to the Project/Settings/Link and copy the command line switches from there?

I'm using visual studio 2008, was having problems using visual c++ 6 was why i switched to this...below is the command line switch you asked for

/OUT:"D:\Documents and Settings\olawale\Desktop\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\Biodata\Debug\Biodata.exe" /NOLOGO /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:"Debug\Biodata.exe.intermediate.manif est" /MANIFESTUAC:"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'" /DEBUG /PDB:"D:\Documents and Settings\olawale\Desktop\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\Biodata\Debug\Biodata.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /MACHINE:X86 /ERRORREPORT:PROMPT D:\Documents and Settings\olawale\Desktop\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\distrib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib

Not sure where it comes from, but I'm 99.9% sure that this is what's causing the problem.

Code:

D:\Documents and Settings\olawale\Desktop\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\distrib

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Mats

so what do you think i should do??? cos this path you just mentioned is where my CTF files to run the application(included files) are located..any help'll be appreciated

i agree wit u matsp..i copied the CTF(common technology file)which is an extractable .exe file to my d drive and this is the error that i got

------ Build started: Project: Biodata, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Linking...
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'D:\.obj'
Build log was saved at "file://d:\Bioinformatics 10th march\Biodata\Biodata\Biodata\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
Biodata - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

but before it was document.obj that was missing....now its just .obj it cant find..any idea??

My immediate suggestion would be to move your entire project to a directory/path that doesn't have spaces in it. D:\documents and settings\ isn't a good place, in my opinion, to put things in the first place, but that may be just me.

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Mats

i just noticed something matsp,when the projects were in my documents, it was asking for a document.obj,then i moved it to c:/ which is my datafiles(OS on d:/) then it kept bringing the error .obj...now i created a folder on c:/ which is called Biodata, now its tellin me its looking for Biodata.obj..any hint pls??

some space in the linker options string is enterpreted as obj-file name

hello vart...so wot do i do as regards what you just said???