I have an InstallShield project (InstallShield 2011 Limited Edition) for Visual Studio 2010. The project is created on a machine running Windows XP (32-bit). It builds an installation package for a C# solution targeted to .NET 4.0 Full profile. However, the same project configuration fails to build installation packages on windows 7. It turns out that the installation of InstallShield itself is different in Windows 7 compared to Windows XP.
When building the installation package on WIndows 7, I get several errors like the following:
ISEXP : error : -1007: Cannot copy source 'C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2011LE\SetupPrerequisites\Windows Installer\3.1\x86\WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe' to target ...
On Windows XP, there are 3 subdirectory structures in C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2011LE\SetupPrerequisites:
Windows Installer
3.1
Microsoft .net
4.0
WindowsImagingComponent
x64
x86
These directories and there files are missing after installation of InstallShield on Windows 7.
If I add the files manually, the Windows 7 machine can build the InstallShield project without problem.
Is this a bug in InstallShield or have I missed some features? I would like to be able to build installation packages both on Windows 7 and Windows XP without having to patch the InstallShield installation itself.
Typically you right click | download the files from the redist screen. Only the .PRQ (XML) files are in the InstallShield installer. The rest are pulled down once as you need them.
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I was trying to use Codeblocks IDE 20.03 in Windows XP when I saw this error message:
The procedure entry point _o__configure_narrow_argv could not be located in the dynamic link library api-ms-win-crt-private-|l1-1-0.dll.
Is there a fix for this issue?
I am using Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build 2600.
Codeblocks IDE 20.03 works in Windows XP 32 Bit without complaining after the following changes,
Download and install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
Download all the 6 files from sourceforge.net
Extract the files from the downloaded codeblocks-code-r11196-trunk-src-exchndl-win32-bin.zip
Copy the files (addr2line.exe, dbghelp.dll, exchndl.dll, mgwhelp.dll, symsrv.dll, symsrv.yes) and replace them in the installation directory where codeblocks.exe is located. (Normally, C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks)
According to various web pages, orca.msi/orca.exe is primarily distributed as part of the Windows SDK.
I have Visual Studio 2015 Professional Update 3 installed. I have installed all the "Universal Windows App Development Tools" components, which includes three different versions of the Windows 10 SDK (10.0.14393, 10.0.10586, 10.0.10240).
But I can't find orca.msi or orca.exe anywhere on my machine. Is this tool no longer packaged with the Windows SDKs? Do I need to install one of the older Windows SDKs as well? Is there an optional Visual Studio 2015 component that I can install to get Orca?
An MSDN page for orca.exe eventually leads me to a download page for Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Is this the most recent SDK which includes orca.msi, or can it be found in newer SDKs such as the Win7/.NET4.0 or Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 SDKs?
Thanks to the confirmation from #pnp0a03 that Orca is still present in modern Windows SDK ISOs, I was able to figure out an install process which does not require re-downloading the full ISO.
It turns out that the Windows 10 SDK can install orca (though the file is now named orca-x86_en-us.msi) but it is not installed by default when you install the SDK via the Visual Studio installer. It is an optional component of the SDK, and the Visual Studio 2015 installer does not offer any control over which SDK components are installed. You have to separately run the SDK installer to install the component which contains Orca.
To do so, go to "Apps and Features", select the most recent Windows Software Development Kit from the installed apps list, and click "Modify".
This starts the installation wizard for the SDK itself.
Now you can edit which SDK features are installed. Select "MSI Tools" and click Change:
After the wizard completes, the Orca installer can now be found in the SDK's install path. On my machine, that's located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86\Orca-x86_en-us.msi. Running that MSI package installs the latest version of Orca itself.
You can pick it from Windows SDK ISO.
Download the latest SDK ISO Image. Current one is 16299.15.
Mount it with Explorer and open the directory Installers. You can find the Orca-x86_en-us.msi.
Downloads Windows 10 SDK
We can download the latest Windows 10 SDK from here
When installing the SDK installer, select below feature alone and proceed installation
"MSI Tools"
Check below folder and look for Orca-x86_en-us.msi
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x86
NOTE: In my C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin folder, I see multiple versions of windows 10 and one can see the orca MSI under the latest version number folder (under x86)
I was able to successfully download and install it the following way:
Download the Windows SDK as ISO file
Right-click on the ISO file (*_release_WindowsSDK.iso) and select "Mount"
Go to folder "Installers", find and extract "Orca-x86_en-us.msi" (drag and drop it to a local folder outside of the ISO)
Do the same with the 3 cab files listed below:
Double click the file "Orca-x86_en-us.msi", and Orca will be added to the Windows start menu.
NOTE: In the link provided above, you can find an archive of older, as well as newer Windows versions too - if required.
How to get orca installed without downloading the entire ISO
Go here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/
Click to download the installer (not the .iso)
Follow the prompts until you get this screen, where you uncheck everything but MSI stuff.
After the install completes, search the install folder for Orca.msi and
install it. It is usually in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.22000.0\x86\Orca-x86_en-us.msi"
I am trying to build a WebRTC library. It has a bunch of build python scripts one of which is trying to access
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt\DLLs\x64
And copy ucrt Dlls into build directory.It fails there because my Redist directory doesn't have ucrt folder. I tried to uninstall my Windows SDK 10 and reinstall it.But Redist is still empty. Based on this doc by Microsoft:
To obtain the binaries for app-local deployment, install the Windows
Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10. The binaries will be
installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt.
But it simply doesn't happen.I also tried to reinstall all the Windows tools and SDK via my VS2015 (Community) installer.
Did Microsoft deprecate the redistributable part of the installation?
How can I solve this?
I installed Windows SDK 10.0.16299.0 . My system is Windows 10 64bit.
It happened to me. Both the visual studio installer and the standalone install incomplete/corrupt versions of the sdk.
Solution: Install the sdk in a windows VM (you can use the Microsoft provided vm: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/) and install the SDK there, then copy the complete folder (named 10 in my case) to the appropriate route. In Windows 10 would be: *C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits*
(Commenting 4 year later because I came here looking for the same answer :) )
I used one Windows Driver samples from github (Filesys) and tried to build it on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015.
I have installed both:
WDK8.1 with its SDK
WDK10
But when i try to build a project i see this error message:
An SDK corresponding to WDK version '8.1' was not found. Please install the SDK before building. minispy (Filter\minispy) C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\build\WindowsDriver.common.targets
but SDK of 8.1 is already installed.
Is there any option in Visual studio that i could use to point it to SDK 8.1?
I had the same problem and the solution
is sdk version 10 released after VS 2015 .
You should download and install it manually. I used the following link for downloading sdk :
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk
Also see this link for help with downloading and installing sdk
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jpwdkblog/archive/2015/08/21/windows-10.aspx
good luck
In this case, you may missed No.3.
Check following points:
Install Visual Studio 2015
Install Visual C++ (Not installed by default)
Install Windows SDK for Windows 10 (Not installed by default)
Install WDK 10 (Download separately)
Upgrade project from WDK 8.1 (for more detail: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/mt270257%28v=vs.85%29.aspx )
Currently,
Visual Studio 2015 supports WDK 10.
Visual Studio 2013 supports WDK 8.1.
In my environment, Visual Studio 2015 may not support WDK 8.1.
When build in WindowsUserModeDriver8.1 with VS2015, an error was occurred: prop is not found.
WDK 10 supports build drivers for Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 (/ 7?).
(see also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/dn914754%28v=vs.85%29.aspx )
To build Windows 8.1 driver, follow below.
Open project properties
Navigate to Configuration Properties > General
Check: Platform Toolset Windows****ModeDriver10.0
Navigate to Configuration Properties > Driver settings
Check: Target OS Version: Windows 8.1
Check: Target Platform: Desktop (Default: Universal)
You are likely targeting the wrong platform toolset. To build a driver for Windows 10, you need to target one of the Windows 10 platform toolset (WindowsKernelModeDriver10.0 or WindowsUserModeDriver10.0). If you want to use SDK 8.1, then you should use the WDK 8.1 platform toolsets (WindowsKernelModeDriver8.1 or WindowsUserModeDriver8.1).
You cannot use the 10.0 toolsets and try to make them point to SDK 8.1 because there were some key changes to how files are laid on disk between the two kits. Using the appropriate toolset should hopefully fix the issue!
Have you followed all the instructions during the installation of VS? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/dn913721.aspx
After correct installation I have handled the problem.
(Optional)
Did you install Windows 10 SDK?
Download link: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk
I'm using Windows 7 SP1 and Visual studio Ultimate 2013. TFS server 2013 is installed in Windows Server 2008.
Below error occurred while trying to build one solution which supports multilingual resx files:
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets
(3001): Task could not find "AL.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 gone through similar questions, but those solutions didn't work. Few are given below:
Install Windows SDK
Windows SDK is already installed
al.exe is present in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools
al.exe is present in \Windows\v7.0A\bin and v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools
Remove resx files and build
Resx files are part of the project and I want them to be in my build.
Any idea to fix this issue?
Thanks for your comments. I installed Windows SDK in server machine, where TFS is installed. It solved my problem.