Visual Studio can't build due to rc.exe
Found this on Google... I would assume that in your case you would copy rc.exe
and rcdll.dll
to visual studio 2012\vc\bin
or wherever you have it installed:
Part 2: FIX LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run ‘rc.exe’
Add this to your PATH environment variables:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86
Copy these files:
rc.exe
rcdll.dll
From
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86
To
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin
Or I also found this:
Microsoft left a few things out of their MSVT package. Since no one knows whether they were left out by mistake or for license reasons, no one with MSVC is too interested in giving them out. A few Google searches turn up some tricky sources. Fortunately, Microsoft has finally wised up and solved this problem and many more.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/faq/default.aspx#pricing
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/
A good amount of MSVT missing files are there but the missing SDK files aren't.
and this:
I had the same problem which I solved by doing this:
- Installing the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
- Adding the path of the .NET Framework files (for me "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727") to Global compiler settings > Programs > Additional Paths within Code::Blocks.
Now I can build and link resource files without errors.
We hit this issue with our CMake/Visual Studio 2015 builds after also installing VS2017 on the machine. The correct solution in our case is to specify the Window Kit version (8.1) to the Visual Studio Command Prompt - otherwise you get the Windows 10 Kit by default which doesn't include rc.exe in the bin directory.
e.g. Start Menu->Visual Studio 2015->VS2015 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt
%comspec% /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64 8.1
Note the 8.1 option on the end
From what I have found, if you have a windows 7 OS, doing the following steps will fix the problem:
1) go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin
2) then copy RC.exe and RcDll from this file
3) go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin and paste the two files you have copied into it.
I had the same problem, and the above posted solution did not work. My solution was derived from it, and it worked for me, if the ones above do not work you can give this one a try.