Dumpbin Error Cannot Execute Link.exe
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477387/cannot-find-dumpbin-exe Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers http://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/msvc/link/ or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Cannot find Dumpbin.exe up vote 36 down vote dumpbin error favorite 3 I do not see dumpbin.exe on my system. I have Visual Studio 2005 on my system. When I type dumpbin on the command line, it says unrecognizable command. Does it come with Visual Studio by default, or do I have to explicitly add this tool? c++ visual-studio visual-studio-2005 share|improve this question edited Dec 2 '13 at 3:19 AK_oz 4911 asked Jan 25 '09 at 8:32 dumpbin error cannot Rakesh Agarwal add a comment| 6 Answers 6 active oldest votes up vote 47 down vote You probably need to open a command prompt with the PATH set up properly. Look for an icon in the start menu that says something like "Visual C++ 2005 Command Prompt". You should be able to run dumpbin (and all the other command line tools) from there. share|improve this answer answered Jan 25 '09 at 8:35 Greg Hewgill 510k1088801044 add a comment| up vote 15 down vote By default, it's not in your PATH. You need to use the "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt". Alternatively, you can run the vsvars32 batch file, which will set up your environment correctly. Conveniently, the path to this is stored in the VS80COMNTOOLS environment variable. share|improve this answer answered Jan 25 '09 at 8:35 Roger Lipscombe 45.9k30152275 add a comment| up vote 9 down vote Dumpbin.exe of VS2005 generally presents in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin. If you would have installed VS2005 in drive other the C, please search in that. And then set that path in the system variable PATH. share|improve this answer edited Mar 21 '14 at 5:42 answered Dec 2 '13 at 12:00 raj
input, to produce an executable as output, but also is capable of much other work concerning these and related files. The different kinds of work are separated by having LINK.EXE act as several programs in one. Program Selection The selection of what is effectively a program within the program depends on the first command-line argument: First Argument Sub-Program /dump Dumper /edit Editor /help Helper /lib Library Manager /link Linker These selection switches are case-insensitive and may begin with either the forward slash or the hyphen. The default, if the first argument is not one of these switches (including because the command line has no arguments), is to select the Linker. Note that the command line in question truly is the command line. LINK.EXE may later take options from elsewhere, notably from environment variables or from files, and thereafter treat these as if they had been given on the command line. However, none of that applies to these few switches. There is an exception to the requirement that these switches be first on the command line. The very first thing that LINK.EXE does with its command line is look for arguments that are exactly -db (in lower case and with the hyphen specifically) or which begin as -db followed immediately by at least a digit. Only the last occurrence of such an argument has any meaning (not that this meaning is yet pursued in this study), but all occurrences are removed from further consideration of the command line as if they had never been on it. Checking for a selection switch as the first argument is then, strictly speaking, the second thing that LINK.EXE does with its command line. If found, the selection switch also is removed from further consideration of the command line. Front Ends The selection switches are rarely used in practice. Indeed, the Helper must be run very rarely indeed, else someone at Microsoft surely would have noticed (and, less surely, would have corrected) that the simple command link /help causes an Internal error during SetupPhase. The others are typically run through one or another of the DUMPBIN.EXE, EDITBIN.EXE or LIB.EXE front-end programs, which each just execute LINK.EXE with the corresponding switch inserted into the command line: Front-End