LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe'

SPlatten

I am on a new contract working with another legacy build environment and old tools:

Qt Creator 4.4.1
Based on 5.9.2 (MSVC 2015, 32 bit)
Built on Oct 4 2017 04:12:53
From revision: 6afdb8bdf9

I have no choice on the build versions and compiler used, it is the requirement. Unfortunately the laptop I have been given to perform the development had only Qt installed and the compiler wasn't installed correctly as the C++ libraries were not installed, neither was a debugger installed.

I have downloaded and installed MSVC 2019 with 2015 SDK C++ checked, I also downloaded the Windows SDK tools, so the Compiler and Debugger are now set to:

       C: Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 14.0 (x86)
     C++: Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 14.0 (x86)
Debugger: Auto-detected CDB at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\x86\cdb.exe

The only problem remaining when I build the project is that CMake is empty and not detected, which results in the LNK1158 error.

J.Hilk

https://forum.qt.io/topic/78214/trouble-with-msvc2015

VRonin

If you don't have to actually run the deployment from your laptop you can just download the MinGW version of the Qt version you can use and develop/test on that. Unless the software is super low level there shouldn't be any incompatibility due to changing the compiler