Before you compile the project, you need first to compile the messages file (messagetable.mc)
If you do not find mc.exe, copy all files from /compiled to project directory.

To compile messagetable.mc, use the provided compile message.bat file.
MC.EXE you can find in your Platform SDK/MSDN/Visual Studio directory:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\vc98\Bin

After you compile it, messagetable.rc, MSG00409.bin and messagetable.inc will be created.
The first one you can use as the primary resource script, or copy its content into your existing rc file.
MSG00409.bin is the compilled (binary) form of messagetable.mc. You can add it to resources using the MESSAGETABLE type, with ID set to 1.

messagetable.inc - header with constants extracted from messagetable.mc while compiling.
Before including it, you'll need to remove additional L from constants and the first line: MessageIdTypedef=DWORD

You can also generate the binary resource using following structures:
	MESSAGE_RESOURCE_DATA   <- describes MSG00409.bin
	MESSAGE_RESOURCE_BLOCK
	MESSAGE_RESOURCE_ENTRY  <- describes single message
