How to fix build error in Visual Studio: '"LC.exe" exited with code -1'

Question

I get the following error when building my Windows Forms solution:

"LC.exe" exited with code -1

I use two commercial Windows Forms Libraries: Infragistics and the Gantt-Control from plexityhide.com, that's why I have licenses.licx files in my WinForms Projects. We also use Visual Sourcesafe as our Source Control.

When the licenses.licx files are in the Projects I cannot build without the above error. However, when I exclude them from my projects the build works fine. But I need the licenses.licx files when I want to work with the commercial controls in the designer.

This is a brand new developer machine with Windows XP SP3 (German) and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers (German) with SP1.

It's Windows XP 32-Bit by the way.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Problem mainly arises due to license file. Exclude the file licenses.licx from your project