Visual Studio Not Found, Error LNK1104 cannot open .EXE

[Dustin_H_]

Hello,

I just purchased Intel Composer XE 2013 SP1 for my windows 7 64 bit computer.  I already had Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell installed on my computer before installing intel composer.  When I open Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, I can see that the software recognizes my Intel Visual Fortran Compiler.  I am able to open the sample program, i.e. Console2 ("Hello World").  However, when I try to build the program, I get the following results:

1>LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "MANIFEST"; ignored
1>LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "MANIFESTFILE:D:\Test\Console3\Console3\Debug\Console3.exe.intermediate.manifest"; ignored
1>LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "MANIFESTUAC:level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'"; ignored
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "/OUT:Debug\Console3.exe"

When I open the command prompt through the "Intel 64 Visual Studio 2010 Mode" in the start menu, I immediately get the following error upon open the command window:

ERROR: Visual Studio 2010 is not found in the system.

Can you please help with this?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Where did you get the Visual Studio 2010 Shell that you already had?

My guess is that you had just the Shell and not the additional tools and libraries we provide. Because you had the shell-only installed, our installer didn't recognize this and didn't add the tools and libraries. You probably have some very old linker installed that is found in PATH.

I suggest that you uninstall Fortran and the VS Shell. Delete the Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 folder. Then reinstall Fortran, making sure that you have selected the installer that includes Visual Studio Shell.

I will also note that our newest version, now called (deep breath), Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition for Fortran Windows (compiler version 15) is now available from the Intel Registration Center. Notifications will be coming out soon. You may want to grab that instead of reinstalling the older version.