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I installed Qt Creator with mingw and msvc2015 binaries. To have the compiler fpr msvc2015 I installed VS 2017 community inkluding support for msvc2015.

However when I try to compile in Qt Creator I get the error

LNK1158 cannot run 'rc.exe'

What went wrong in the installation? Which files do I need to reinstal to fix this?

The PATH in QtCreator contains the folder 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64_x86;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86;

But the rc.exe is only in 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.16299.0\x64
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.16299.0\x86
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\...
Matthias Pospiech
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  • Maybe this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14372706/visual-studio-cant-build-due-to-rc-exe) will be helpful – Rhathin Nov 09 '18 at 13:03
  • There are too many rc.exe to copy under `C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\`. Which is the correct one? I tried to solve it as in the answer. But it did not work. – Matthias Pospiech Nov 09 '18 at 13:09
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    I added `C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.16299.0\x86` to the path in QtCreator and it works now. – Matthias Pospiech Nov 09 '18 at 13:34

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