Visual Studio 2017 errors on standard headers

If anyone's still stuck on this, the easiest solution I found was to "Retarget Solution". In my case, the project was built of SDK 8.1, upgrading to VS2017 brought with it SDK 10.0.xxx.

To retarget solution: Project->Retarget Solution->"Select whichever SDK you have installed"->OK

From there on you can simply build/debug your solution. Hope it helps

I got the errors to go away by installing the Windows Universal CRT SDK component, which adds support for legacy Windows SDKs. You can install this using the Visual Studio Installer:

If the problem still persists, you should change the Target SDK in the Visual Studio Project : check whether the Windows SDK version is 10.0.15063.0.

In : Project -> Properties -> General -> Windows SDK Version -> select 10.0.15063.0.

Then errno.h and other standard files will be found and it will compile.

I upgraded VS2017 from version 15.2 to 15.8. With version 15.8 here's what happened:

Project -> Properties -> General -> Windows SDK Version -> select 10.0.15063.0 no longer worked for me! I had to change it to 10.0.17134.0 and then everything built again. After the upgrade and without making this change, I was getting the same header file errors.

I would have submitted this as a comment on one of the other answers but I don't have enough reputation yet.

If the problem is not solved by above answer, check whether the Windows SDK version is 10.0.15063.0.

Project -> Properties -> General -> Windows SDK Version -> select 10.0.15063.0

After this rebuild the solution.