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Microsoft Visual Studeo 2020 Unable to Start
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itsnatunusual
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Eventually this issue completely stops my program from working no matter if I'm using a blank document or set up a predefined console app. There are no errors in my build it just pops up missing debug exe. I've only been coding for a few weeks and I do not understand what I'm doing wrong. Every single project has this error and it refuses to run even in debug mode. Please help me.
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David Lowndes 4,711 Reputation points2022-06-27T14:27:55.737+00:00 One of your screenshots showed you have 2 errors. Open the Error List pane (the option is under the View menu) and see what they are.
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 27,431 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2022-06-28T05:29:47.46+00:00 Hi @itsnatunusual , welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Could you share us the error message which was recorded in Error List window(View > Error List)? Did you set some configurations in VS or for your projects?
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Igor Tandetnik 1,106 Reputation points2022-06-28T18:01:10.96+00:00 Your build failed (your screenshots say so), so the executable was never created, so there's nothing to run.
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itsnatunusual 1 Reputation point
2022-06-29T18:47:34.52+00:00 I don't understand how to create an executable. Nothing I've ever researched or tutorials I've seen have talked about executables or how to make them if they are not auto generated.
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itsnatunusual 1 Reputation point
2022-06-29T19:03:17.63+00:00 So the problem is that this happens on EVERY project. Like as soon as I add more than a "Hello World". Here's a different project that only has one error that I'm working on figuring out.
SO, the error in this project is that it cannot reference "statblock.h" despite that file being included in the build. I'm finding a workaround for that but I have to delete all of my code in main to get it to run without this missing .exe error. I've never seen anyone have to builld a .exe so I do not understand why my VS is different
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itsnatunusual 1 Reputation point
2022-06-29T19:34:11.203+00:00 I tried that and even without the errors being thrown I still get a build failure.
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itsnatunusual 1 Reputation point
2022-06-29T19:40:46.647+00:00 Hey, sorry I got frustrated and switched to a different project. Same thing though. Here's a picture of the build failure:
As for configurations I really haven't messed with anything at all bc I don't know if I should be or when but:
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