Visual Studio 2015 Win64 hangs during solution build

Question

I\'m trying to build some third party libraries from source using Visual Studio 2015. I\'m creating the solution file using cmake 3.2.3 and I\'m using the ExternalProject_ad

Answer 1

It took a while and some research, but I think that I have reproduced your problem and found a solution. I found that cl.exe would seem to hang, but there was a process called "cvtres.exe" that was actually hanging. When I killed that process, the compilation would continue. There appears to be a known bug that KB3118401 seems to fix. I installed this patch and I haven't had the problem since. Hope this helps!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51161