LNK1000: Internal error during IMAGE::BuildImage

It began work as soon as I have changed "Whole program optimization" option from "Use Link Time Code Generation" to "Profile Guided Optimization-Instrument".

I encountered the same error. The problem in my case was that I was "playing" with the configuration properties (Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General)

The 'Configuration Type' of the project was 'Dynamic Library (.dll)', but the 'Target Extension' was .lib instead of .dll.