Error compiling anything other than console apps

[D_Snake]

Hi i installed symbian os 1.0 (1.2 was giving me too much of a headache with bugs) , im running msvc with sp3. i can compile console apps fine, using abld makefile vc6, or even abld build wins udeb. however, when i try to compile anything that uses windows, like the bitmap example, i get no notification that an error occured with abld build wins udeb, but no EXE is created. when i use vis studio, i keep getting the same 'perl return code 0x9'. ill post the full error PLEASE HELP! thank you :)
pls note: this is the same error 'line 161' thing for ALL window apps, it isnt the code itself.

bla ---- perl -s epocrc.pl -l
--
--
--
--bla
-t"\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\EPOC32EX\GRAPHICS\BITMAPS\BITMAPSSHELL\WINS\UDEB"

*cant execute cpp at C:\SYMBIAN\6.1\SHARED\EPOC32\TOOLS\epocrc.pl line 161
NMAKE: fatal error U1077: perl return code 0x9
stop.
error executing c:\windows\system\cmd.exe


so anyway i went to line 161 of epocrc.pl and it said
$cpp_status !=0; (to return 0x9 error). whats going on?

[D_Snake]

actually i get the error in abld build wins udeb aswell, it looks like this:

nmake fatal error u1077
..\nmake.exe return code 0x2
stop

[g7tommyb]

What's going on is that Perl is crapping out on you brother:)
For some reason on some machines the '>' is not being executed properly by Perl and things crap out. For instance the statement on line 161 in epocrc.pl is crapping out because of
the '>' that is embedded withitn the statement.

Solution: None as far as I know
Although some people on this forum have suggested that maybe if you blindly reinstall Perl, the SDK, the OS, and move to a different country - things just might work - hehe:)

Cheers,
=g7tommyB=