cannot compile anything on 64 bit windows 7 PC

[grhadley46]

I successfully (I think) installed Composer XE on my laptop, which is a 64 bit machine running windows 7. When I try to build anything (even the Console App template that prints "hello world") I get the linker message "rc.exe not found". I have no idea what this means or what to do different

[Steven_L_Intel1]

rc.exe is the Resource Compiler and is part of the Visual Studio support installed by the Visual Studio Shell if you don't already have a supported Visual Studio on the system. Did you have Visual Studio already? Please do this - in Visual Studio, click Help > About. Click "Copy Info" and paste the result into a reply here.

Please also paste (or attach) the contents of buildlog.htm from your Debug or Release project folder.

Lastly, please do this: Start > Intel Parallel Studio XE > Command Prompt > Parallel Studio XE with Intel Compiler > IA-32 Visual Studio 2xxx Mode. Set default (cd) to the folder containing your Hello World program. Type:

ifort helloworld.f90 ( replace "helloworld.f90" with the actual file name)

Copy and paste the entire command window output, from the beginning, into a reply here.