error MSB6006: “cmd.exe” exited with code 1

Question

When I\'m trying to build my VC++ code using 2010 I\'m getting the error message

> C:\\Program Files\\MSBuild\\Microsoft.Cpp\\v4.0\\Microsoft.CppCommon.targ

Answer 1

For the sake of future readers. My problem was that I was specifying an incompatible openssl library to build my program through CMAKE. Projects were generated but build started failing with this error without any other useful information or error. Verbose cmake/compilation logs didn't help either.

My take away lesson is that cross check the incompatibilities in case your program has dependencies on the any other third party library.