[SOLVED] Issue compiling Servers on W7 x64....

[la0wai]

Hi there. I've followed the wiki guide to the letter thus far and yet trying to build the DSConnect-server errors with this output:

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1>------ Build started: Project: DSConnect-server, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>  Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for 80x86
1>  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.
1>  
1>  cl  ■/
1>     
1>  
1>CL : Command line warning D4024: unrecognized source file type ' ■/', object file assumed
1>  Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 12.00.31101.0
1>  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
1>  
1>  /out:.exe 
1>  ÿþ/ 
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'ÿþ/.obj'
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Does anyone have a clue what I'm supposed to do here. I'm stumped. :(

[la0wai]

Managed to solve it with Google-fu (specifically this post: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forum ... =vcgeneral)

Essentially I ran a search for cl.exe in Windows Search and it turned up three files with higher version numbers than what was reported in the build log above. VS2013 was pulling an old version of the Visual C compiler from C:\Windows\SysWOW64, to solve this issue I copied the contents of F:\Program Files\Visual Studio\VC\bin (which is where I installed my VS2013 to so be sure to check the right place for your installation) and copied everything from that folder into SysWOW64. It's a very nuclear way of doing it but it worked for me.

[whasf]

Thank you for posting the solution!