LOL, and the rest of the errors.  I think they should just clean up the source and we can build our own to our own optimisation settings.  which version of boinc api did you use?[I see now, 5.5 sources]  I had the same issues... (VS2005 w/ ICC&IPP)

-  so what did you do about the const char * one ?

-  what about-  position_history(0) on line 126 of seti_header.cpp ?

(just curious to see if you did the same as I did , I'd have to go back and look what I did and compare)

Jason

first have a look in Util.h line 31, and see if the #if !defined(HAVE_STRLCOPY)) , is active... if it is then implementation in util.c will be active too.  If those aren't active then HAVE_STRLCOPY is defined, you can 'find in files' to locate the definition if there is one.  If it is defined then maybe a wrong preprocessor definition is there (e.g _GCC or _MSCVER)

that bit was okay for me.

The precompiled headers need to be generated at least the first time,  In the master projects I just set them on the C++ section -> Precompiled Headers to 'Create Precompiled Headers' and left them there for now.  It'll save time to change it back later when you build pieces often, but don't need to alter the headers anymore.
[ I see you found this -- Good one ]

For now you probably do need to creat them(because they aren't there, and) because some of the includes and defines are messed up.

[The Intel Include will be processor specific, chosen by ICC,  just add the right directory in your 'additional include directories' to your ICC installation, and add IPP for good measure ]

It took some more to return %)
Well, after some edition of include statements I got all solution to compile but now have some errors on link stage.
"
Linking... (Intel C++ Environment)
ipo: error #11033: Fatal error cannot open Release32-NoGFX-xP/analyzeFuncs.obj
xilink: error error_during_IPO_compilation: problem during multi-file optimization compilation (code 1)
xilink: error error_during_IPO_compilation: problem during multi-file optimization compilation (code 1)
"
And there is no analyzeFuncs.obj indeed! I tried to compile it as single file, it compiles OK, but still no obj anywhere... Any ideas?

Hmm did a quick search on that error you mention.  If you check the buildlog.htm it might say something about 'could not open' a certain file.

Indications are this maybe occurs when either there is not proper access rights to the TEMP directory,  or that VS2005 was installed in a different login account

"Could not open" just means the file doesnt exists at all. And why it doesnt exists.... ? 

(I use admin account, the same that I used for VS installation, no special access rights was applied )

P.S.
Full output:

Output Window      Compiling with Intel(R) C++ 10.0.027 [IA-32]... (Intel C++ Environment)
gaussfit.cpp
seti_header.cpp
analyzeReport.cpp
pulsefind.cpp
timecvt.cpp
analyzePoT.cpp
schema_master.cpp
progress.cpp
chirpfft.cpp
sah_gfx_base.cpp
sah_gfx.cpp
worker.cpp
spike.cpp
s_util.cpp
malloc_a.cpp
analyzeFuncs.cpp
lcgamm.cpp
main.cpp
gdata.cpp
seti.cpp
version.cpp
Linking... (Intel C++ Environment)
ipo: error #11033: Fatal error cannot open Release32-NoGFX-xP/analyzeFuncs.obj
xilink: error error_during_IPO_compilation: problem during multi-file optimization compilation (code 1)
xilink: error error_during_IPO_compilation: problem during multi-file optimization compilation (code 1)
 
As one can see, analyzeFuncs.cpp was compiled w/o errors, but no analyzeFuncs.obj exist.

Wow I just did what you suggest to do
I turned on asm output (as verbose as it could be - /FAcs option) , replaced $(Intdir) with '.' and compiled again... No obj, no asm....
Only these files was found :
analyzeFuncs.cpp
analyzeFuncs.h
analyzeFuncs.i
seti_boinc-analyzeFuncs.Po

And nothing more with analyzeFuncs in the file name ...

Yes, the same. It tried to build only one project, to compile only one analyzeFuncs.cpp file, even to switch back to VS-style project and compile analyzeFuncs.cpp via MS compiler.
Results the same (exept MS compiler complained about unknown options
------ Build started: Project: seti_boinc, Configuration: Release32-NoGFX-xP Win32 ------
Compiling...
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '/Qprec-div-'
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '/Qprec-sqrt-'
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '/QxW'
analyzeFuncs.cpp
) no analyzeFuncs.obj was generated.