I am using python pip install, which calls setup.py, and uses distutils, to compile and link C/C++ sources. The code calls Microsoft Visual Studio C (msvc) cl.exe to compile the sources, and that works fine, but when it calls link.exe, it fails with “No such file or directory”. I ran a “dir” and fou…

Thanks again for the help. This problem has now been resolved. I can see that there are many ways to avoid the link.exe command that exceeds 32k in length, but some of them would require changing components that we don’t normally change. In our case, the problem involved libSBML. Here is how we sol…

Msvc link.exe not found

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tanzislam November 20, 2019, 7:11pm 2

You prob need to load vcvarsall.bat as shown in NMake support from Windows

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Msvc link.exe not found

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