cant find rc.exe

[Mike_H_]

I have just purchased the latest intel parallel studio XE 2011 and installed Visual Studio 8. Durring XE instalation at a dos window briefly pops up on the screen durring 20 and 21 of 33 packages. When I then go into visual studio and make a test f90 program I can compile routine but at build time the error 'rc.exe not found' comes up.

I have re-installed XE twice now and that does not fix the problem??

[Roland_W_Intel1]

What version of Visual Studio 2005 are you using? This problem sounds similar to the issue described in this article:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/can-not-find-rcexe/

however, it involves Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Premier Partner Edition which is supplied by Intel as part of our Intel Visual Fortran compiler.

[Mike_H_]

this is visual studio 2008. and the new Parallel XE

[Kirill_R_Intel]

The rc.exe is part of Microsoft Windows SDK. It's likely Visual Studio installation issue.

On my PC rc.exe is localed here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\x64

If you can find the rc.exe file, you can go (in VS2008) to Tools > Options > Intel Fortran > Compilers. Click on the "..." to the right of Executables. Make sure that the line is included:

$(WindowsSdkDir)bin

If there is no rc.exe, you can reinstall MS Windows SDK for Visual Studio or the whole Visual Studio.

The problem was discussed several times. See there:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=65293
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=70199
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=62060

MS Windows SDK:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924.aspx