Task could not find “LC.exe” using SdkToolsPath

Question

I have cloned a project to my computer using TFS, when I build the project I get this error :

Error 6 Task could not find \"LC.exe\" using the SdkT

Answer 1

It turns out you can specify the path to the SDK directly in the .csproj file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6 Tools

and the build found lc.exe that way. So do a dir /s for lc.exe and use that path.

I previously expected to set this using , but that didn't work. In Microsoft.Common.targets, SdkToolsPath gets set from TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory, so I tried that and it worked. (It would be nice if the variable name corresponded 1 to 1, but they don't.)

This is on Visual Studio 2015, and msbuild being called from ant.