[dirkmill]

too late to edit my previous post

I just checked 11.9.1 i86_n3 out and initially got the same error message.
you basically have two options:
1. create a (potentially empty) resource file for your vendor daemon
2. edit the makefile to skip compiling and linking of the resource file for the vendor daemon

for option two just use the following as replacement of the daemon-section of your makefile:

daemon:	$(DAEMON)

$(DAEMON): $(XTRAOBJS) $(DAEMONLIBS) lsvendor.obj $(SRCDIR)\lsserver.h $(LMNEW_OBJ)
#	   $(RC) -r -fo $(VENDORNAME).res $(VENDORNAME).rc
           $(LD) /subsystem:console /out:$(DAEMON) lsvendor.obj $(LMNEW_OBJ) \
#          	$(XTRAOBJS) $(DAEMONLIBS) $(CRT_LIB) $(XTRALIB1) $(DONGLELIB) $(ACTSTUB) $(VENDORNAME).res
           	$(XTRAOBJS) $(DAEMONLIBS) $(CRT_LIB) $(XTRALIB1) $(DONGLELIB) $(ACTSTUB) 
			$(EMBED_MANIFEST)

cheers,

dirkmill :B