error cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'

Question

I have installed VS2013 and VS2015 on Windows 7.

I have an existing C++ Dll project that was building fine but now all of a sudden it wont build using VS2015 and giv

Answer 1

I had this similar problem today with Visual Studio 2017. My cause turned out to be a bad environment setting in NETFXSDKDir, specifically:

NETFXSDKDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1

It needed to have a value of:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10240.0\um\x86

I have a more detailed response here:

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'