[RESOLVED] LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run "cvtres.exe"

[dlscott56]

Received the following LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run "cvtres.exe".

Working on a VB6 project and suddenly am getting this when trying to create an installation package, or File>Make. Not sure what happened and doesn't seem to be anything new that was done on the Windows XP VM I'm running the development software on. A search for cvtres.exe resulted in finding 2 copies, both located in then Microsoft.NET\Framework directories under different versions.

[DataMiser]

I'm not sure but it would seem that file should not be called at all from VB6. It appears to only apply to .net
I did a quick scan on my system and found 14 copies of it, most of them under the Windows/winsxs tree.

I am pretty sure that all the files used by VB6 for compiling and linking are in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98 folder or in the case of xp C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98

[dlscott56]

Any idea what would suddenly make it call cvtres.exe and how I can stop it? Thinking that I damaged something I recopied my VM from a back up and it does the same thing. Wondering if it is VMWare related. Not sure but need to find a way to resolve it.

[Magic Ink]

>a VB6 project
So is the fault happening on other projects too? or just this one.

[dlscott56]

Just tried several other projects and get same result.

Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8168
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LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run "cvtres.exe"

[dlscott56]

UPDATE:

After several hours of trial and error, reinstalling soft and searching for answers, I copied my project from the hosts drive that is shared to my VM to the VM drive and everything works as expected. Not sure if there was a VMWare update that occurred since I last created an installation package or not. But, it seems to be related to the VMWare software and sharing drives with the host system.

[mawuvi]

UPDATE:

After several hours of trial and error, reinstalling soft and searching for answers, I copied my project from the hosts drive that is shared to my VM to the VM drive and everything works as expected. Not sure if there was a VMWare update that occurred since I last created an installation package or not. But, it seems to be related to the VMWare software and sharing drives with the host system.

Thank you!