Standard C/C++ library not installed in new installation of Visual Studio

Question

I formatted my computer and I installed VS2012 release candidate first, then VS2010 Ultimate, and lastly VS2012 Professional from DreamSpark . Also, after installing VS2012, I uninstalled VS2010 and VS2012 RC

I can open solutions and compile them perfectly, but when I tried to use #include s from the C/C++ standard library an error pop ups saying cannot find source file stdlib.h

I went to the VS2012 installation directory and in the include folder of VC, I only have 2 .h files ( vsgcapture and srv ), and nothing else.

I checked out and there was a directory called Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 which is from VS2010, and the .h and .lib files of C/C++ were there, so I copied/pasted everything to VS2012 and tried to compile, but some strange errors came up.

So I uninstalled everything VS-related from the control panel, I deleted all the directories from Program Files and I installed VS2012 Professional again and the VC directories are empty again. I tried Repairing it from the setup but still the same problem.

Anyone knows how to fix this?

Answer 1

I solved this by installing VS2012 on another computer, copying everything inside the VC directory where all the .lib s and .h s are, and pasting them on my installation.

Now it works perfectly well.

I asked in another site and I found out that this might happen because errors in the Visual Studio installation process. If you don't have another computer to do this, you can install it on a virtual machine instead and copying them from there.

Answer 2

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