Help!! I have downloaded visual studio 2012 express and windows sdk 7.1. After adding a few directories in toolchain executables (additional path) and search directories (compiler, linker & resource compiler) it works. I can now add things like <gdiplus.h> and <dshow.h> without getting like a million compiler errors. Thats amazing. But when i try to add a resource file it says "LNK1123 failure during conversion to coff". This problem i solved too by clicking right on the rc file -> properties... -> advanced [tab] and changing WINDRES to something random like "RC" or "MSVS2010". Now the res file gets made but doesnt get linked for some reason. If you look at the build log you can see that link.exe skips the $link_resobjects macro. How can i fix this so that the res file does get linked?
