RES file not linking anymore with DMD v2.052

[Ettienne Gilbert]

Hi,

I've finally gotten round to upgrading my DMD to v2.062 (from 
v2.059) - running on Win XP.

I've had no issues recompiling the (quite old) DFL library I use 
with the latest DMD, so went on to rebuild a tool I previously 
developed (that uses DFL). Everything compiled ok, but the linker 
choked on my RES file. (This project build fine and worked 
perfectly on previous versions of DMD up to and including 
v2.059). The error is:

OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
atrchecker.RES(3) : Error 52: .DEF Syntax Error
DO

^	


I am sure that the "D0" and "^" is suppose to indicate the 
position of the error, but is pretty useless in this case.

I've googled on ".DEF Syntax Error" and, according to 
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/OptlinkErrorMessages.html, this 
indicates a "An invalid .def file syntax could not be parsed. ", 
which does not help much at all.

I am pretty confident though that it is not a DEF file issue 
since I am building a EXE (no DEF should be required). The Tool 
also builds fine if I remove the RES file from the project.

Googling on "Error 52" bought up nothing substantial either.

The RC file for the RES file is extremely simple:
Code:	

101 ICON DISCARDABLE ".\\Resources\\scope4.ico"

205 BITMAP DISCARDABLE ".\\Resources\\SomeBitmap.bmp"

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
    3001 "....some string!....."
END	


I've tried compiling the RC file with both the MS as well as the 
DM resource compiler:

For DM:
rcc -32 atrchecker.rc

For MS:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\rc" /r /v 
atrchecker.rc

The symptoms are exactly the same in both cases.

I can open the RES file with any number of resource editors 
(including Visual Studio and XN Resource Editor) and they all 
display the relevant BMPs and ICOs without errors.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Ettienne