Could not find SDK "Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop, Version=14.0".

[SwimmingTiger]

Your Windows build number

Windows 10 version 1903 build 18895.1000

What you're doing and what's happening

Got this error:
Error MSB3774 Could not find SDK "Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop, Version=14.0". OpenConsolePackage C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\DesktopBridge\Microsoft.DesktopBridge.targets 266

I have exhausted all possible solutions:

• Build with VS2017 (the same error)
• Build with VS2019 Preview 3 (the same error)
• Retarget platform toolset to v142 (the same error)
• Install any components that may be missing (the same error)
• Install the VS2015 platform toolset (v140) (the same error)
• Switch system language from Chinese to English (the same error)
• Switch system code page to UTF-8 (beta) (the same error)
• Switch system code page to English-US (the same error)
• Clone and rebuild many times (the same error)
• Modify any possible version settings (the same error)

What's wrong / what should be happening instead

Why does a VS2017 (v141) project require VCLibs 14.0 (v140)? And the error message points to the file from Visual Studio itself. I think this is beyond my understanding.

Wish a Visual Studio expert will tell me what happened.

I think this is a problem specific to this project. I can build a UWP Demo project normally. I can also build the earlier commits (58ec472 and earlier).

[SwimmingTiger]

Try installing VS2015 but it requires 8GB of disk space with C/C++ support. I don't think this is a reasonable solution.

[SwimmingTiger]

It seems that VCLibs 14.0 is there:

But I always get the error.

[SwimmingTiger]

Build with command (.\tools\razzle.cmd bcz) will get the same error:

Tried both x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017 and x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019.

[binarycrusader]

I've just built the latest gate tip with the latest VS2017 without issue. Can you provide screenshots showing what the Visual Studio Installer shows as installed?

For example, on my system:

If you run "git status" from the command line in the source directory, does it show any changes?

Have you tried creating a new repository clone?

[oising]

Just an FYI @SwimmingTiger -- v142 requires v141, but this dependency is hidden from you and is automatically installed. I'd imagine v141 may have a dependency on parts of v140. So installing VS 2015 is not the correct interpretation here.

[binarycrusader]

See also #565.

[SwimmingTiger]

@binarycrusader I have the same components as you in VS2017, except IntelliTrace (the community version does not have this feature, this should not matter).

I also installed the same components as #565 in VS2019, but I still have this error.
This should be considered as a new issue. If it doesn't happen to you, maybe it only happens on Windows 10 version 1903 build 18895.1000?

[SwimmingTiger]

Eventually I solved the problem by "Repair" my VS2017. I noticed that a new directory Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop.110 was added to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Kits\10\ExtensionSDKs (it didn't exist before. I didn't add or remove any components).

This repair also solved the same build problem in VS2019 (I didn't repair VS2019, just repaired VS2017). I guess these files are shared components of all Visual Studio and were corrupted when I uninstalled VS2017 (at that time, I just wanted to keep VS2019) and were not reinstalled correctly after I reinstalled VS2017.