Well I found the problem, when I actually go to the directory where the
failed Link.exe is and
try to run it from the command line, I get the following msg,
"application has failed to start because mspdb60.dll was not found.
Reinstall the application"
A few weeks ago I uninstalled an old Autocad (Autodesk) 2000i
application and it was a terrible
uninstall app. First off after uninstalling the Cad I kept getting msgs
to reinstall MS FrontPage
which was wacky since FrontPage was already installed. So I cancelled
the msg and then
had to roll my system back to a "pre Cad uninstall but I have had
intermittent issues since.
It appears that the uninstall of Autodesk has problems with all it's
hooks into other applications
(why these hooks exist I have no idea) and uninstalling. I will now have
to reinstall my Visual C.
"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"RB" wrote:
Hello, it's been a few months since I used my compiler and now I'm
getting the following messages.
[...]
Linking...
Error executing link.exe. <THIS IS THE PROBLEM HERE
[...]
ChgCase2.exe - 1 error(s), 1 warning(s) THE ONLY ERROR IS THE LINKER
WON'T RUN
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I have checked all the paths in my OPTIONS->DIRECTORIES but they are
still correct. I'm using MS VC Pro ver. 6.x (an older version of
Visual Studio.
Anybody got any ideas what may have happened ?
It is strange that linker doesn't report any readable error. You may
try to execute linker with full command line (copy it from the project
settings) by yourself in console window.
Alex
You fell prey to the old nightmare of "DLL Hell". This issue is solved by the new manifest-based side-by-side DLL solution used by
VC++ 8.0 and 9.0. However, the new WinSxS concept requires a bit more effort on the part of developers, and has been dubbed