Visual Studio debugger error Unable to start program Specified file cannot be found

Question

I have a solution in C  full path here VS2010 blender sln  This solution contains many projects around 100   When I compile them  they all work fine  I can run them without any problem  and  quite  everything works  there are some bugs   One of the projects is ALL BUILD  but it gives the same error if I try to debug INSTALL another project   I m compiling with RELWithDebInfo as configuration  and if I execute the program manually it works  It is outputted in C  full path here VS2010 bin RelWithDebInfo  But if I try to run the compiler  it says       Unable to start program    C  full path here VS2010 RelWithDebInfo ALL BUILD   Specified file cannot be found    I tried to copy the compiled program into the path required by VS  but it raised the same error   What should I do to solve this  Right now I set up cmake to generate also a mingw project and I compile it and debug it with gdb  but this is a really a slow and impractical workflow  and I would like to use the VS debugger   I must say that if I compile with Debug as configuration  the program doesn t even start   I m using VS2010 Express on Win7 64bit   This is a big open source program  so I don t know exactly whatever it does

User · Answer

I had the same problem    Verify the  Source code  folder on the  Solution Explorer   if it doesn t contain any  source code  file then    Right click on  Source code    Add   Existing Item   Choose the file You want to build and run   Good luck

User · Answer

I think that what you have to check is    if the target EXE is correctly configured in the project settings   command   in the debugging tab   Since all individual projects run when you start debugging it s well possible that only the debugging target for the  ALL  solution is missing  check which project is currently active  you can also select the debugger target by changing the  active project   dependencies  DLLs  are also located at the target debugee directory or can be loaded  you can use the  depends exe  tool for checking dependencies of an executable or DLL

User · Answer

Guessing from the information I have  you re not actually compiling the program  but trying to run it  That is  ALL BUILD is set as your startup project   It should be in a bold font  unlike the other projects in your solution  If you then try to run debug  you will get the error you describe  because there is simply nothing to run   The project is most likely generated via CMAKE and included in your Visual Studio solution  Set any of the projects that do generate a  exe as the startup project  by right-clicking on the project and selecting  set as startup project   and you will most likely will be able to start those from within Visual Studio

[c++] Visual Studio debugger error: Unable to start program Specified file cannot be found

Examples related to c++

Examples related to c

Examples related to visual-studio-2010

Examples related to debugging

Examples related to visual-c++