Error 'LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt' after installing Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview

Question

I\'ve installed Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview, and it appears to be fine, but now when I try to use Visual Studio 2010 to compile C++ projects, I get the following erro

Answer 1

I had this problem after I installed Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Framework 4.6 on the machine that previously had Visual Studio 2010.

The problem was that after such an installation the file msvcr100_clr0400.dll from C:\Windows\System32 was overwritten with the new one with a very small size ~19 Kb, however the former one was ~800 Kb.

After I restored the file manually from another build machine cvtres.exe started working properly again.