Visual Studio compiles but the exe isn't there

Question

Source code that compiles fine on other peoples environments won\'t correctly work in my environment. When I do a rebuild the compile occurs but when visual studio goes to

Answer 1

There are two subtly different paths. I was looking here, which doesn't exist:

C:\Users\james\source\repos\CppHelloWorld\Release\CppHelloWorld.exe

The actual exe is here - note the path contains the x64 platform that it was built for:

C:\Users\james\source\repos\CppHelloWorld\x64\Release\CppHelloWorld.exe

In general, the path seems to be:

$PROJECT_PATH\$PROJECT_NAME\$PLATFORM\$CONFIGURATION\$PROJECT_NAME.exe