Headers common to .cpp and .rc files

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My .rc files use definitions common to them and the .cpp files.

These definitions are in header files included by both.

However, it is convenient for these headers sometimes also to contain things like structure definitions and inline functions which are irrelevant to the rc files, and may cause problems for the rc compiler.

Now I could insert above the inclusions in the rc file

#define THIS_IS_AN_RC_FILE

and then within the headers put

#if !defined THIS_IS_AN_RC_FILE
// all the stuff I don't want the rc file to see
#endif

but it occurs to me that the rc compiler might automatically define something equivalent.

Does it?

Dave
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