无法启动程序，找不到指定的文件，Visual Studio 11

Question

I'm working off of a fresh install of VS 11 Beta, on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. When I try to debug, it gives me this error message.

"Unable to start program 'C:\\Users\\myname\\documents\\Visual Studio 11\\Projects\\Project1\\Debug\\Project1.exe"

I'm almost entirely sure it isn't a problem with my code--it works fine on online compilers, making me think that it's an issue with how I'm saving it. Just in case, here it is.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}

My process for creating the project/file is to create a new empty Visual C++ project, then a .cpp file, write my code, save it as a .c inside of the first folder I'm prompted with, within the projects folder, and then try to debug.

What am I doing wrong, here? I know that the debug folder is empty, but I can't figure out how to create the .exe file that should reside in it.

NB: I'm rather new to programming. If answers could be phrased in babyspeak, that would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Well, there could be a number of things wrong. However, based on your description of making a ccp file and ac file, I'm betting that it's a problem in your VS 11 project rather than the code itself. My guess would be that either the c file didn't get included in your project (check the Solution Explorer) or that you have the main (or _tmain) function defined in both the cpp and the c files, which will make the linker issue an error.

There are a bunch of "Hello World" tutorials online for VS 2010 and earlier, but there don't seem to be many for VS 11 Beta yet. You may want to take a look at the 2010 versions. I found this video tutorial that you may want to check out.

Answer 2

Check the output directory. And you can also set manually an output direcotry to save the built exe file.

Answer 3

I know this problem was from May but I thought I would answer with a solution that worked for me:

I was creating a .cpp file in a blank project and was getting a similar error. I noticed that the file had a name but was not showing the extension .cpp . I added the extension to the file ( ex3.18.cpp ) and did not get the .exe error again.

I don't know if that makes sense with your issue but I worked on this for two days uninstalling and reinstalling VS 11, and this was what finally worked.