It worked for me right out of the box. When you installed the extension did you let it install the VS2017 Build tools?
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Hello there. Ive been coding in C++ for about a year and a half now but in all my time ive never been able to figure out the linker. its just not good.
Downloaded the SFML ping pong template off the marketplace, opened it, and then nice an error when it compiles.
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error MSB3073 The command "copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-audio-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-audio-d-2.dll"
copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-graphics-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-graphics-d-2.dll"
copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-network-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-network-d-2.dll"
copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-system-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-system-d-2.dll"
copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-window-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-window-d-2.dll"
copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\openal32.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\openal32.dll"
mkdir "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\resources"
copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\resources" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\resources\"
:VCEnd" exited with code 1. testProjectForLib C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets 128
So yeah, whats going on here?
Using VS 2019
Output:
Build started...
1>------ Build started: Project: testProjectForLib, Configuration: Debug Dynamic x64 ------
1>The system cannot find the path specified.
1>The system cannot find the path specified.
1>The system cannot find the path specified.
1>The system cannot find the path specified.
1>A subdirectory or file C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\resources already exists.
1>The system cannot find the path specified.
1>The system cannot find the path specified.
1>The system cannot find the file specified.
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: The command "copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-audio-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-audio-d-2.dll"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-graphics-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-graphics-d-2.dll"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-network-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-network-d-2.dll"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-system-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-system-d-2.dll"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\sfml-window-d-2.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\sfml-window-d-2.dll"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\extlibs\bin\x64\openal32.dll" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\openal32.dll"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: mkdir "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\resources"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: copy /Y "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\resources" "C:\Users\manny\source\repos\testProjectForLib\x64\Debug Dynamic\resources\"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v150\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(128,5): error MSB3073: :VCEnd" exited with code 1.
1>Done building project "testProjectForLib.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
It worked for me right out of the box. When you installed the extension did you let it install the VS2017 Build tools?