Visual C++ 2005 express ed.

Hello,
I'm coding in C, Win XP pro SP2., Visual C++ 2005 express ed.

After going through the pre-compiled headers,
and -CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE; I've managed to
compile and run a "Hello World!" program.

However compiling a larger program with over 300 lines, or smaller,
that was compiled with gcc MinGW: I'm getting the following error using Visual C++:"CL:command line error D8300: missing source filename."

I've google(ed), and microsoft(ed); found some posts, but
found nothing that explains my situation; which is
compiling a C program.

The solutions I've tried are:Closing the (") found at
the end of _CRT_NO..., make a new program, unable
unicode, compile as c(T/C), in properties > C++ > Advanced >
compile as>, specifing "no commom language runtime support,"
in properties > config.> general > etc.

Here's my compile log below; it seems to me that it
has a C source filename:" mailing.c" in the statement
that begins [/02 /D "#define -CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE....

Can you discern what the problems are in this log?

Hope you can help me?

Thank you.
/************************************************** **********/

Build Log:


Build started: Project: mailing, Configuration: Debug|Win32

Command Lines


Creating temporary file "d:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\mailing\mailing\Debug\RSP00000410561 476.rsp" with contents
[
/O2 /D "#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /FD /EHsc /MT /Fo"Debug\\" /Fd"Debug\vc80.pdb" /c /TC ".\mailing.c"
]
Creating command line "cl.exe @"d:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\mailing\mailing\Debug\RSP00000410561 476.rsp" /nologo /errorReport:prompt"

Output Window


Compiling...
cl : Command line error D8003 : missing source filename

Results


Build log was saved at "file://d:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\mailing\mailing\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
mailing - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

hmm... just a stab at this, but shouldn't the command line option be:
/D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE

Hello,
Thank you laserlight for an interesting solution.
However doing it:"/D_CRT...", did not work; I'm
getting the same error.

Doing it:"/D " #define _CRT_SECURE...", is worse!

Thank you for an informed post.

1. try to add
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE 1
to the cpp file

and remove it from the project settings

here is the quote from one forum

Quote:

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You must define #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE 1 somewhere at the very begining of any inclusions. That is, you must define this in "sdafx.h" right after #pragma once statement.

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