How to install SignTool.exe for Windows 10

Question

How to install SignTool.exe in Visual Studio 2015 for Windown 10? I tried to build my project but the program threw an error :

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Answer 1

You need to install the Windows 10 SDK.

1. Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 contains it already, but it is not installed by default. You should go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features, find Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select "Change".

Visual Studio 2015 setup will start. Select "Modify".

In Visual Studio components list find "Universal Windows App Development Tools", open the list of sub-items and select "Windows 10 SDK (10.0.10240)".

Windows 10 SDK in VS 2015 Update 1 Setup

2. Of cause you can install Windows 10 SDK directly from Microsoft: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=698771

As josant already wrote - when the installation finishes you will find the SignTool.exe in the folders:

• x86 -> c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86
• x64 -> c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64\

Answer 2

If you're using VS Express 2015, just go to your control panel --> programs and features --> select vs 2015 --> click change, then in the VS Express installer select 'Modify' --> select Publishing tools, and finish. Once setup completes the changes you will be able to create your installer.

Answer 3

In 2019, this is a quite recent link from Microsoft about how to obtain this tool:

The SignTool tool is a command-line tool that digitally signs files, verifies signatures in files, or time stamps files. For information about why signing files is important, see Introduction to Code Signing. The tool is installed in the \Bin folder of the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) installation path.

SignTool is available as part of the Windows SDK, which you can download from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=84091.

I only needed signtool, so I chose the minimal I came up with and signtool.exe is now in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\signtool.exe

Microsoft article link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/signtool

Answer 4

SignTool is available as part of the Windows SDK (which comes with Visual Studio Community 2015). Make sure to select the "ClickOnce Publishing Tools" from the feature list during the installation of Visual Studio 2015 to get the SignTool.

Once Visual Studio is installed you can run the signtool command from the Visual Studio Command Prompt.

By default (on Windows 10) the SignTool will be installed in:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86\signtool.exe

Answer 5

April 28th 2020

I found it here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\App Certification Kit

Answer 6

It's available many, many places, depending upon what is installed: On my box, every one except the v6.0A SDK version supports the /fd option.