Building EPICS base 7.0.1.1 with VS 2015, windows-x64-static failed as follows:
forceBadAllocException.cpp
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, rc -l 0x409 -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I../../src/osi/compiler/msvc -I../../src/osi/compiler/default -I. -I../../src/osi/os/WIN32 -I../../src/osi/os/
default -I.. -I../../src/as -I../../src/bucketLib -I../../src/calc -I../../src/cvtFast -I../../src/cppStd -I../../src/cxxTemplates -I../../src/dbmf -I../../src/ellLib -I../../src/e
nv -I../../src/error -I../../src/fdmgr -I../../src/flex -I../../src/freeList -I../../src/gpHash -I../../src/iocsh -I../../src/log -I../../src/macLib -I../../src/misc -I../../src/os
i -I../../src/pool -I../../src/ring -I../../src/taskwd -I../../src/timer -I../../src/yacc -I../../src/yacc -I../../src/yajl -IH:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/include/compiler/msvc -IH:/e
pics-devel/base-7.0.1/include/os/WIN32 -IH:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/include -IH:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/include/compiler/msvc -IH:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/include/os/WIN32 -IH:/epics
-devel/base-7.0.1/include -fo Com.res ../Com.rc, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
H:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/configure/RULES_BUILD:242: recipe for target 'Com.res' failed
make[4]: *** [Com.res] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
iocLogServer.c
../../src/log/iocLogServer.c(418): warning C4244: 'function': conversion from 'SOCKET' to 'int', possible loss of data
H:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/configure/RULES_ARCHS:58: recipe for target 'install.windows-x64-static-vs2015' failed
make[3]: *** [install.windows-x64-static-vs2015] Error 2
H:/epics-devel/base-7.0.1/configure/RULES_DIRS:84: recipe for target 'src.install' failed
make[2]: *** [src.install] Error 2
../configure/RULES_DIRS:84: recipe for target 'libcom.install' failed
make[1]: *** [libcom.install] Error 2
configure/RULES_DIRS:84: recipe for target 'modules.install' failed
make: *** [modules.install] Error 2
This problem was because the "rc.exe" (resource compiler) program could not be found.
I believe this was a side-effect of installing VS2017 on the same computer where VS2015 was already installed. I believe rc.exe was previously located in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64
because that is what the VS2015 vcvarsall.bat puts in the PATH. However, after installing VS2017 that file is now in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\
and there are 3 versions of the kit (10.0.16229.0 and 2 others).
It does not seem that the VS2015 vcvarsall.bat is smart enough to find the new location and add it to the path. I thus did that manually by adding these lines to the batch file I use to configure VS2015 and launch a cmd window.
rem It seems that the VS2017 installation messed up 2015 so it does not find rc.exe
rem Work around this by adding this to the path
set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\