I have cloned a project to my computer using TFS, when I build the project I get this error :
Error 6 Task could not find "LC.exe" using the SdkToolsPath "" or the
registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\WinSDK-NetFx40Tools-x86". Make sure the
SdkToolsPath is set and the tool exists in the correct processor
specific location under the SdkToolsPath and that the Microsoft
Windows SDK is installed
I have searched the web but couldn't find a solution. I use VS 2013 and .NET 4.
How can I fix this? Thanks.
Best Answer
It turns out you can specify the path to the SDK directly in the .csproj file:
and the build found lc.exe that way. So do a dir /s for lc.exe and use that path.
I previously expected to set this using
<SdkToolsPath>
, but that didn't work. In Microsoft.Common.targets, SdkToolsPath gets set fromTargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory
, so I tried that and it worked. (It would be nice if the variable name corresponded 1 to 1, but they don't.)This is on Visual Studio 2015, and msbuild being called from ant.