The specified task executable "cl.exe" could not be run.

Hi Dunken,

 

Thanks for your post.

I think it is a known issue and I find a connect page:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/106634/mt-exe-fails-sometimes-with-code-31-in-release-builds#details

Here are several additional workarounds you can try:

1. Change "Regional and Language Options" in control panel (Advance tab -> Language for non-Unicode programs) to English(US)

2. Under properties >> C/C++ >>Code Generation >> RunTime Library

Change Multi-threaded (/MT) (Release Build) and Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd) (Debug Build)

to Multi-threaded DLL (/MD) (Release build) and Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd) (Debug build)

Hope my reply helps.

 

Best Regards,

Ziwei Chen

 

 

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