Starting program in Visual Studio exits with "Unknown Error: 0x80070057"

[alb_f]

I have a Solution in Fortran. It compiles fine. When I try to start it from within VS it exits with "Operation not supported. Unknown Error: 0x80070057".

I found out that the Properties "Merge environment" setting has some influence on this behavior. When set to "No", the program does start from within VS but is has lost all system environment settings. When I put these in by hand in "Environment" the program works as expected.

Few remarks/questions:

1. The setting "merge environment = No" does not seem to merge the env settings defined by myself under "Environment" with the system env settings but rather leave the system env settings out completely, only retaining my own defined env settings. Is this normal behavior?
2. I checked the system env settings and they are fine. Why then does the setting "Merge Environment" have the above described influence? By default I have no env settings defined.
3. I reinstalled VS 2022 (17.12.3) and also Intel OneApi but without any effect.
4. From a similar issue on this forum: https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/Unable-to-start-program-Operation-not-supported-Unknown-error/m-p/1599085 I also checked the Path and it seems to be Ok (I use Intel® Fortran Compiler 2024.0). The command dir \libifcoremd.dll /s/b gives:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\2022.1.0\windows\redist\ia32_win\compiler\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\2022.1.0\windows\redist\intel64_win\compiler\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\2024.0\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\2024.0\bin32\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\latest\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\latest\bin32\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\intelpython\latest\envs\2022.1.0\Library\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\intelpython\latest\Library\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\intelpython\latest\pkgs\intel-fortran-rt-2022.1.0-intel_3787\Library\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\intelpython\python3.9\envs\2022.1.0\Library\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\intelpython\python3.9\Library\bin\libifcoremd.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\intelpython\python3.9\pkgs\intel-fortran-rt-2022.1.0-intel_3787\Library\bin\libifcoremd.dll

I also created the Console "Hello World" sample program from VS. It has the exact same issue without any change to the code so it doesn't seem to be a problem with my code or solution settings.

      6. What can be the issue at hand here? Any help is appreciated.

[Steve_Lionel]

I'm not sure why/if this matters, but the first four entries you show should be removed. I also don't like to see copies of the Intel libraries in other folders, such as the Python folders.

[alb_f]

Using the Intel Installer I have removed the IntelPython component and the Intel 2022 Compiler. Things seem to work again now.

Thanks Steve for the great help! You're the best