fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "Debug/

Question

I'm trying to run C++ code in microsoft visual version 6.0. The code is well compiling but I'm getting the error "fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "Debug/Assignment.exe" when I try to build. The file is saved in the project named Assignment. I'm new to C++ and the microsoft visual stuff. I don't know where to start from to get around error. Please help.

Answer 1

Sounds like a copy of the exe (Debug/Assignment.exe) is already running so visual studio can't overwrite the file. Have a look in the task manager / process explorer and kill any copies that are running then try again.

Answer 2

Curiously, in my case it was a CMake 'debug' linker library path setting that caused almost the same error, and I guess you can have similar problems with 'optimized.obj' linking failures.

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'debug.obj'