Qt cannot find rc.exe Codes: fatal error RC1106: invalid option: -ologo, LNK1327 / LNK1158 : fatal error during running rc.exe

aha_1980

I hope someone with Windows/MSVC can help you better here. I do not even know where the correct rc.exe is located, I had assumed it would be in parallel to cl.exe and link.exe.

if that is not the case, some clever PATH manipulation might do the trick, although that does not seem the cleanest solution.

regards

kkoehne

rcc.exe is nowadays part of the Windows Kit, while cl.exe is part of Visual Studio. For me (latest Visual Studio 2017 amd64), this is e.g.

D:>where rc.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\x64\rc.exe

D:>where cl.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\bin\Hostx64\x64\cl.exe

Try to launch the Visual Studio Command Prompt; it should put the right directories in your PATH. Is rc.exe and cl.exe available in there?

J.Hilk

I believe we had this recently,

https://forum.qt.io/topic/90839/lnk1158-cannot-run-rc-exe

the topic is marked unsolved, but the posted solution does work.

Anyone700

@kkoehne I am a complete beginner. Please walk me through this
-Where is "Visual Studio Command Prompt"
-Where to edit Qt's PATH

kkoehne

For how to find the Visual Studio Command Prompt, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f35ctcxw.aspx .

After opening the prompt, run

where rc.exe
rc.exe -v
where cl.exe
cl.exe -v

If you can run these commands successfully, it at least means your Visual Studio installation is complete.

Anyone700

@kkoehne I think you misunderstand. I need to add: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\x64" to the Qt Build Environment. I do not know how to get to this window to do that: https://ddgobkiprc33d.cloudfront.net/3f7cdac6-e900-47e8-be4e-a9a1338d0d4c.png

aha_1980

@Anyone700

Tools > Options > Build&Run > Kits > «Your MSVC Kit» > Build Environment

Anyone700

@aha_1980 I already looked there and this is what I see.

It bothers me that Qt does not function on install for some of it's users and when reported. Was closed as "Not a bug".

aha_1980

@Anyone700 because it is no Qt bug. As MS compilers need to be set up separately, they, well need to be set up correctly.

So why don't you use the 'Change' button next to Environment to add the path to rcc.exe?

Anyone700

@aha_1980 The solutions discussed in the other thread appear to be in a different window. To use the one you led me to, I would need a command line.

Visual community, Dev C++, Code Blocks, and RAD studio all run without this problem.

@J.Hilk said in LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe':

hi, @zzzhhhzzzhhh

pleasemake sure, that the WindowsKit bin folder is part of your Build Environment

i had this issue a couple of month back, that the windows kit was no longer automatically found and I had to add it manually

kkoehne

@Anyone700, Open the "Edit Environment" field for your kit and put

PATH=${PATH};C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\x64

there. Anyhow, this shouldn't really be necessary; Qt Creator sets the right paths itself by executing the Visual Studio Command Prompt (or rather: vcvarsall.bat) once, and extracting the PATH from there. Hence my request to check whether the path is correctly set in your Visual Studio Command Prompt.

Anyone700

@kkoehne It works now. Before I go ahead and close this, I would like to figure out why this is happening and what I can do to make it never happen again. For anyone.

Here is what happens when I run those commands:

jsulm

@Anyone700 Looks good. Just the parameter -v is wrong and cl expects a source file as input which is missing.

Anyone700

@jsulm So why did Qt not get the right settings on install? What else can I do to help?

aha_1980

@Anyone700

I still think you have some weird setup problem.

In your first post, you have MSVC2015, but in your screenshot you have MSVC2017.

Your developer command prompt works, so it should work in Creator too. We had some problems when running the .bat took excessive long, that may also be a problem.

Another Windows typical problem is, if PATH contains invalid directories, following (valid) directories may be ignored.

Hard to tell from my side whats going on on your system.

Anyone700

@aha_1980 The cause is moot, Qt fails expected behavior. I would argue that this is not an important bug to fix as it effects few users and has an easy fix. However it should be listed so the community can decide if it wants to fix it. I will re-list this issue with the new information found here, mark this as solved as it found a fix, and will continue to provide help figure this out here: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20637