How to Fix Visual Studio Bug: "’/RTC1′ and ‘/clr’ Options are Incompatible"
Posted by gregd1024 on December 31, 2007
Have you ever received this error when converting a native C++ project to MC++?
1>cl : Command line error D8016 : ‘/RTC1’ and ‘/clr’ command-line options are incompatible
While, yes, it’s true that ‘/RTC1’ (basic runtime checking) with ‘/clr’ (.NET support) are incompatible options, the problem is there’s no place in the Visual Studio IDE to turn off ‘/RTC1’ once it’s set (not even from the command line editor). The Project Settings dialog just lists different modes of runtime checking without a “disable” option:
In order to fix this problem, follow these steps:
- Open up your “vcproj” file in a regular text editor.
- Search for all the strings that look like:
BasicRuntimeChecks=”3″
- Replace all instances with this string:
BasicRuntimeChecks=”0″
In your project file the “BasicRuntimeChecks” variable may not necessarily equal “3.” It just happened to be the default in my project. Whatever number appears as your default just replace it with “0” and that should fix the problem.
-Greg Dolley
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JP said
I am trying to use (#using) System.dll…
#using
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text::RegularExpressions;
I first got an “‘/RTC1′ and ‘/clr’ command-line options are incompatible” error.
After setting BasicRuntimeChecks to “0” I get a new incompatibility error: “‘/Gm′ and ‘/clr’ command-line options are incompatible”
I may not require RegExps but I want to do some simple string pattern validation.
Maybe someone knows of an alternative?
gregd1024 said
Hi JP,
The /Gm option simply enables minimal rebuilds. Why this is incompatible with /clr, I don’t know. But you can turn off /Gm in the “C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Enable Minimal Rebuild” option located in your project properties.
Hope this helps.
-Greg Dolley
Michael said
This is an inaccurate fix.
In the project that i am experiency this command line error `Basic Runtime Checks` are set to default. The vcproj file indicates that [BasicRuntimeChecks=0].
With this value set i still receive this error message…
Regards,
Michael
gregd1024 said
Michael,
Hmmmm… that is weird. My fix worked with VS 2008 Express (original, not SP1). Maybe something has changed in SP1, or there’s some other setting conflicting causing your error. Obviously, the error is trying to tell us that /RTC1 can’t be used with /clr, but if you don’t have /RTC1 set, then I don’t know why VS would still show the same error. Maybe it’s a VS bug.
If you figure out how to fix the error in your project, please post an update. Thanks. 🙂
-Greg Dolley
John said
The above fix works for me on service pack 1. However, if like me you have a solution with multiple projects in it, you have to remember to edit each of the project files.
mack said
Command line error D8016 : ‘/EHs’ and ‘/clr’ command-line options are incompatible
i am getting this error , now what to do ??
PierreMF said
Just to say thanks! 🙂
I was wondering how to do that 🙂
Nikhil said
I have done according to above setting then i got new incompatibility error: “‘/Gm′ and ‘/clr’ command-line options are incompatible” then i have tried “C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Enable Minimal Rebuild” option located in your project properties but i got new error
‘/ZI’ and ‘/clr’ command-line options are incompatible pls help me….