Error prj0003 error spawning cl exe vs2008

Active 8 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 21k times. Hi, and welcome to SO. You can get your code formatted properly by highlighting and pressing ctrl-k. It really looks like your error is not in running the program, but in compiling it. Looking at your source and the error of spawning rc. Do you have a make file and what is it doing? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The cause of the infamous: Error spawning 'rc. Robino Robino 3, 2 2 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges.

Hans Passant Hans Passant k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. No idea what "declare examples" means. But not seeing the file is the root source of the problem. Yes, reinstall. Ricky Lung Ricky Lung 7 7 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Maybe your rc. Brock Adams Using Windows SDK 7. Indi Indi 11 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Yeah, apparently with Visual Studio msvc You can also obtain a CD-ROM image and have that as a convenient way to reinstall as needed recommended.

This gives you a common baseline that others can duplicate and use to trouble-shoot your questions. I'm actually using VC express Beta 2 atm and I get the following errors:. Project : error PRJ : Error spawning 'cl. Project : error PRJ : Error spawning 'link. After i add in cl. How to solve it. To fix this:. The required RC. I realize this is old, but I fixed the same error by checking the "tools" option when installing the Windows SDK.

This is selected by default, I had removed it assuming Visual Studio's tools will be used. There is nothing to do in the Registry, nor in the Visual Studio settings! You find a LOT of misleading and wrong answers to this question!