Error LINK fatal error LNK1123 failure during conversion to COFF file invalid or corrupt after installing Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview

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I ve installed Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview  and it appears to be fine  but now when I try to use Visual Studio 2010 to compile C   projects  I get the following error message      LINK   fatal error LNK1123  failure during conversion to COFF  file invalid or corrupt   I m not 100  sure of this  but it seems to be related to projects that have  rc  resource  files in them   I ve tried repairing Visual Studio 2010 from Add Remove programs and rebooting  but this has no effect   I also get the same error if I use Visual Studio 2012 RC to compile the C   projects when set to use the Visual Studio 2010 toolset  Upgrading to the Visual Studio 2011 toolset fixes the problem  but of course I don t want to do this for production code    Update  I ve uninstalled Visual Studio 2012  rebooted  and the problem still persists  Help

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I solved this by doing the following    In a command prompt  type msconfig and press enter  Click services tab   Look for  Application Experience  and put tick mark  that is  select this to enable    Click OK  And restart if necessary    Thus the problem will go forever  Do build randomly and debug your C   projects without any disturbance

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If disabling incremental linking doesn t work for you  and turning off  Embed Manifest  doesn t work either  then search your path for multiple versions of CVTRES exe   By debugging with the  VERBOSE linker option I found the linker was writing that error message when it tried to invoke cvtres and it failed   It turned out that I had two versions of this utility in my path   One at C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC BIN cvtres exe and one at C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 cvtres exe    After VS2012 install  the VS2010 version of cvtres exe will no longer work   If that s the first one in your path  and the linker decides it needs to convert a  res file to COFF object format  the link will fail with LNK1123    Really annoying that the error message has nothing to do with the actual problem  but that s not unusual for a Microsoft product    Just delete rename the older version of the utility  or re-arrange your PATH variable  so that the version that works comes first   Be aware that for x64 tooling builds you may also have to check C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin amd64 where there is another cvtres exe

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For those of you looking for a solution for this problem with the OpenGL SuperBible 6th source code samples  the solution is building in Release instead of Debug  All projects have disabled the incremental linking option in the Release version

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I solved this problem eventually by doing a full uninstall of VS2012 RC  followed by a full uninstall of VS2010  then a reinstall from scratch of VS2010   It took forever  but I m now able to compile C   projects in VS2010 again

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If you have installed Visual Studio 2012 RC  then it installed  NET 4 5 RC   Uninstall  NET 4 5 RC  and install the version you need  4 0 for VS 2010   This should clear up any problems you are having   This solved the same problem  There is no need to uninstall Visual Studio

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It didn t work for me after Enable Incremental Linking -   No   INCREMENTAL NO    but it works for me after I deleted the rc file

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My problem was that I ve had two paths on my PC that contained the same libraries  Both paths were added to the Additional Library Directories in Configuration Properties -  Linker -  General  Removing one of the paths solved the problem

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I have not installed Visual Studio 2012  but I still got this error in Visual Studio 2010  I got this resolved after installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1

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I had the same problem after updating of  NET   I uninstalled the  NET framework first  downloaded visual studio from visualstudio com and selected  repair     NET framework were installed automatically with visual studio -  and now it works fine

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1 to user Short for an answer that worked for me   I tried to do some debugging of this with msbuild  v diag  and I m seeing that MSBuild is trying to embed a manifest in the executable  with  lt somename gt  dll embed manifest res on the linker command line  where that is a resource file built from  lt somename gt  dll embed manifest  But the manifest file is an empty Unicode text file   That is  a two-byte file with the Unicode 0xFEFF prefix   So the root problem seems to have something to do with that manifest file not being generated  or it being used when  lt somename gt  dll intermediate manifest should have been used   An alternate solution seems to be to turn off the  Embed Manifest  option under Properties  Manifest Tool  Input and Output

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It s because of  NET Framework 4 5 is replacing  NET Framework 4 0  I uninstalled Visual Studio 2010 several times with no luck  When I removed  NET Framework 4 5 and reinstalled Visual Studio 2010 it went fine   See Uninstall Visual Studio 11 completely to do a fresh install

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As of January 2014  for some reasons I got installed  NET Framework 4 5 1  I don t know if due to a third party software installation or to an automatic update    On January 29th  I got installed one component and I started receiving the   LINK   fatal error LNK1123  failure during conversion to COFF  file invalid or corrupt    message  At that time  I solved by avoiding the incremental link    On Jan  31st  I got installed another component of  NET Framework 4 5 1 and the incremental link trick did not work anymore  I then installed the Visual Studio 2010 SP1  but afterwards the problem became    Error   6   error LNK1104  cannot open file  msvcrtd lib      I think the SP1 messed up my Visual Studio 2010 installation    So I uninstalled  NET Framework 4 5 1  installed  NET Framework 4 0 and uninstalled and then reinstalled Visual Studio 2010  That worked for me

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Check the version of cvtrs exe   dir  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe    Wrong version  date  03 18 2010 time  01 16 PM size  31 048 bytes  name  cvtres exe  Correct version  date  02 21 2011 time  06 03 PM size  31 056 bytes  name  cvtres exe  If you have wrong version you should copy the correct version from   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 VC bin cvtres exe   and replace the one here   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe   i e   copy  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 VC bin cvtres exe   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe

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I set Enable Incremental Linking to  No   INCREMENTAL NO   and it doesn t work for me   Next I ve changed   Project Properties     - gt  Configuration Properties         - gt  General           - gt  Platform Toolset - gt   Visual Studio 2012  v110     and it works for me

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I tried a few times and finally solved the problem by uninstalling several times the VS2010  I think I hadn t uninstalled all the files and that s why it didn t work for the first time    In the installation of VS2012  it is said that if you have VS2010 SP1 you can t work on the same project in both programs  It is recommended to have only one program    Thanks

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The issue was magically resolved for me by removing  NET 4 5  and replacing it with  NET 4 0  I then had to repair Visual Studio 2010 - it being corrupted along the way somehow   I had previously installed  and then un-installed  Visual Studio 2012 - which may be related to the issue

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Even inspite of installing Service pack you are getting the error then try removing renaming the cvtres exe in the C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin folder  This has worked for me

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To summarize   Step1  Project Properties     - gt  Configuration Properties         - gt  Linker  General             - gt  Enable Incremental Linking - gt   No   INCREMENTAL NO     if step1 not work  do Step2  Project Properties     - gt  Configuration Properties         - gt  Manifest Tool  Input and Output             - gt  Enable Incremental Linking - gt   No    if step2 not work  do Step3 Copy file one of    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 VC bin cvtres exe C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0 VC bin cvtres exe C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 13 0 VC bin cvtres exe  Then  replace to C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe With me  do 3 step it work

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For me  setting  Generate Manifest  to  No  fixed it   Also fixed with  INCREMENTAL NO

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If you re using x64  here s a resource will help   This happens because Microsoft  NET 4 5 is incompatible with Visual C   10  The workaround is to ensure that you run the  NET version of cvtres exe rather than the Visual C   version  I did this by renaming the Visual C   versions of those files and copying the  NET versions in their place   1  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe 2  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin amd64 cvtres exe  1  C  windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 cvtres exe 2  C  windows Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 cvtres exe

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I had this problem after I installed Visual Studio 2017 and  NET Framework 4 6 on the machine that previously had Visual Studio 2010   The problem was that after such an installation the file msvcr100 clr0400 dll from C  Windows System32 was overwritten with the new one with a very small size  19 Kb  however the former one was  800 Kb   After I restored the file manually from another build machine cvtres exe started working properly again

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Reinstalling CMake worked for me  The new copy of CMake figured out that it should use Visual Studio 11 instead of 10

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According to this thread in MSDN forums  VS2012 RC installation breaks VS2010 C   projects  simply  take cvtres exe from VS2010 SP1  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe   or from VS2012  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 VC bin cvtres exe   and copy it over the cvtres exe in VS2010 RTM installation  the one without SP1   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin cvtres exe   This way  you will effectively use the corrected version of cvtres exe which is 11 0 51106 1   Repeat the same steps for 64-bit version of the tool in C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin amd64 cvtres exe   This solution is an alternative to installation of SP1 for VS2010 - in some cases you simply can t install SP1  i e  if you need to support pre-SP1 builds

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I had the same problem with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and it was solved by the method described in this youtube video    The video suggests to rename the file cvtres exe in C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC bin  in my Win7X64 matchine  to cvtres-old exe

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This MSDN thread explains how to fix it   To summarize     Either disable incremental linking  by going to   Project Properties     - gt  Configuration Properties         - gt  Linker  General             - gt  Enable Incremental Linking - gt   No   INCREMENTAL NO    or install VS2010 SP1    Edits   CraigRinger   Note that installing VS 2010 SP1 will remove the 64-bit compilers  You need to install the VS 2010 SP1 compiler pack to get them back   This affects Microsoft Windows SDK 7 1 for Windows 7 and  NET 4 0 as well as Visual Studio 2010

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I was using the Windows SDK for core Win32 programming and had  NET 4 5 installed for  unknown  reasons  I have uninstalled that and installed 4 0 like previous answers and yeah  it worked for me too   Just am flabbergasted that I had to use the useless  NET framework for building Win32 apps using the SDK

[visual-studio-2010] Error 'LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt' after installing Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview

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