Why is an empty include file "not found"?

[Cobalt]

Was prepping my program to chuck some finalized SUBs into an include file and pre-made the include file and added the include line and it gave the error that the file was not found.

Whats the deal?

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[FellippeHeitor]

Is an include including another include that's already been included? From the screenshot it looks like there's some weird cross includes going on there.

[FellippeHeitor]

Ah, I see the title mentions it's empty. QB64 is probably checking for content to determine if the include exists, there you have it. It'll go away once you include a file with actual content.

[Cobalt]

Nope, it seems to append whatever line to the error.

Just hates an empty file for some reason.

Why should it care though?
 

[FellippeHeitor]

You know how in the old days, before we had _FILEEXISTS we would open a file for BINARY and check if LOF() > 0? That's it.

[Cobalt]

Ah, gotcha.

[FellippeHeitor]

Checking the source code again, $Include manager does use _FileExists first already, so it's something else.

Also, I created an empty file and tried including it, and didn't get any issues. You've managed to create a unique environment with your structure for the error to pop, so we'd need further investigation into that.

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[Cobalt]

Oh. Let me play with it a little.. wonder if you need "Certain kind of" code before the include?  I'll try some variations..

[Cobalt]

Well thats not it, with a clean IDE up no other code but what you have in your example and the error still arises.

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[FellippeHeitor]

Try with the latest Dev build then, which is what I have. If it's an interaction with your OS then I won't be able to assess it immediately.

[Cobalt]

Try with the latest Dev build then, which is what I have. If it's an interaction with your OS then I won't be able to assess it immediately.

shoot, I uploaded the wrong image with the last post, same with the latest DB(just downloaded before I made the last post)
Happens on Win 10 as well.
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[FellippeHeitor]

I'll test it in a Windows machine soon. But since it's not something one would do in a normal scenario (including an empty file) I believe we're safe in calling this low priority.