Visual Studio skips build

Question

When I try to build my project I get the following message in the build window :

========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 1 skipped ==========

I tried rebuilding , then building again , but it doesn't help . Is there a way to view more detailed messages ? The "skipped" part doesn't give me any info on what's wrong . I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition .

Answer 1

Check with the configuration manager like CMS said and make sure that you have the right platform set. A lot of the time when you use something like the MS Application Blocks the default platform is set to Itanium.

Answer 2

Check on your solution properties, then go to "Configuration Properties", and make sure that all the projects that you want to build, have the build flag checked:

Answer 3

Yet another reason why this could happen (as it happened to me):

When your VS installation is missing x64 compiler toolchain, and you're building for x64.

To solve this, find MSVS in appwiz.cpl ("Programs and Features"), click "Uninstall/Change", then go to the x64 toolchain checkbox under C++ and check it.

Answer 4

This recently happened to me when I tried to compile a project that was apparently orphaned from it's parent solution.

When I finally did get it to compile, it wouldn't work because some library from another project was missing (that was supposed to be part of the solution to get a successful build).