Rc.Exe No Longer Found in VS 2015 Command Prompt

rc.exe no longer found in VS 2015 Command Prompt

Spent some time looking at this on three machines with Win10 Creators Edition and VS2010, VS2013, VS2015 and VS2017 installed, where it works on two machines and fails on the third. All had VS2015 Update 3 and all should have been installed with the same options.

Running the following batch file

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat

should setup the correct environment for VS2015 x64 environment. This should add

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64

to the PATH. This is where rc.exe should be. However on my failing machine rc.exe was missing from here, but it did exist in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.15063.0\x64

I went back and feeling like this was a setup issue I re-ran the VS2015 Update 3 setup and told it to add

Windows and Web Development -> Universal Windows App Development Tools -> Tools (1.4.1) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.14393)

this caused rc.exe and related files to appear in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64

Running rc -v on

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.15063.0\x64\rc.exe

and

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64\rc.exe

gave the same version number 10.0.10011.16384

Not sure why rc.exe was missing from the original install, but re-running the install and adding the other SDK fixed it for me. It looks like

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64\rc.exe

should be the default rc.exe but it was not setup by a previous install.

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:

1. Installing the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
2. 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.

Problem in Building openssl_1.0.2p in Visual Studio 2015

Problem is Solved. Windows and Web Development package was not installed in VS 2015. I installed it and now openssl is building fine.

If anyone wants to install these packages then goto control panel-> programs and features -> VS 2015
Right Click on VS 2015 -> change -> Modify -> select Windows and Web Development - > install

How to use rc.exe with MSBuild in a .NET project

I came up with this: An Exec task calls a PowerShell script, that looks in the registry in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows for the SDK with the largest version number, retrieves the installation path, and then calls from that path the first rc.exe it encounters that is beneath a x86 directory.

A little bit ugly, but it works.

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