I am trying to use this tutorial from MS to verify I can build a .cpp file from the command line on my system. I seem to be having problems with my VS Command Prompt. It cannot find cl.exe or the needed include files. I added C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin and C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE to my path so it would find cl.exe. Now my error is:
test.cpp(1) : fatal error C1034: iostream: no include path set
Isn’t the whole point of the VS Command Prompt to setup all these environment vars for me? Why isn’t it setting it up properly?
I just figured it out. Thanks to Conrad Frix for the debugging tip.
It is surely due to some lovely security policy I have here on my workstation. Running the shortcut as administrator works. My account is a local admin account, but the admins do all kinds of weird stuff to our machines here…sigh. So, much of our development has to happen by “elevating”.
Note, I was able to change the shortcut to run as under administrative privileges by selecting Properties->Advanced->Run as administrator.