cURL 'rc' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I've looked everywhere for the answer to this, no luck. I'm trying to build cURL for visual studio 2015.

nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=static VC=14 debug=no

After a couple of seconds of building it, it says

   'rc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
   operable program or batch file.
   NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'rc' : return code '0x1'
   Stop.
   NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
   Studio 14.0
   \VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
   Stop.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 10 '18 at 08:39

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Make sure that you have 'rc' directory added to your path. For me rc.exe was in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.16299.0\x64". Once I added that to Environment Variables, the command worked. Hope that helps.

For example:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.16299.0\x64

edited Aug 10 '18 at 08:39

Kukunin

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answered Nov 21 '17 at 05:46

Bobby Koteski

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 08 '19 at 06:46

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For x64 Use following on VS 2015 comman prompt

%comspec% /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64 8.1

For x86 Use following on VS 2015 comman prompt:

%comspec% /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 8.1

edited Aug 08 '19 at 06:46

Maciej Kowalski

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answered Aug 08 '19 at 06:42

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cURL 'rc' is not recognized as an internal or external command

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