Divya Shresth writes: > > I am trying to build my appliaction then i am getting the following error > with gcc 3.3.3 > > pasting "version" and "." does not give a valid preprocessing token. > > The source of this error is the following piece of code > > #define paste_tokens(a,b) real_paste_tokens(a,b) > #define real_paste_tokens(a,b) a ## b > #define stringify(x) real_stringify(x) > #define real_stringify(x) #x > > #define NAME_STRING stringify(paste_tokens(lib, paste_tokens(TARGET, .so))) > > #define LOCAL_VERSION_STRING (char*) NAME_STRING > > I just cannt find a way out. I have tried removing ## too as suggested by a > few pepole but it still dosnt work. Can't you do this at runtime instead? What are you using the resulting string for? Andrew.