Visual Studio 2012 - Required file "tracker.exe" is missing

Question

I tried to compile the source code of cryengine 3 and I always get the following error message.

Error   1   error : Required file "tracker.exe" is missing. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets  251 6   CryGame

For some reason I couldn't find any information on google.

Could it be possible that my Visual Studio installtion is somehow corrupt? I am still using the release candidate

could be because your VS studio is using the wrong tracker.exe, is your machine 32bit or 64 bit — Syntactic Fructose, Nov 16 '12 at 18:17

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '12 at 18:33

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A quote from MS website about tracker.exe:

Tracker.exe is required to correctly incrementally generate resources in some circumstances, such as when building on a 64-bit OS using 32-bit MSBuild. This build requires Tracker.exe, but it could not be found. The task is looking for Tracker.exe beneath the InstallationFolder value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A.

Possible solutions:

Install the Microsoft Windows SDK v7.0A or later.
Manually set the above registry key to the correct location.
You short-circuit that lookup instead by setting the ResGenTrackerSdkPath property to the 7.1 .NET 4.0 tools location. In the build definition, under "MSbuild Arguments", you can add the following:

/p:ResGenTrackerSdkPath=":\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools

EDIT: your path may differ a little, but this still shows the general path to add

answered Nov 16 '12 at 18:33

Syntactic Fructose

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What if I only have version 7.1 installed, not 7.0a? – einpoklum Jan 17 '14 at 19:33
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I am. But - I did a 'Repair' from Control **Panel | Programs | MS VS 2012** and that worked. – einpoklum Jan 19 '14 at 05:55
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I ran into the same problem after upgrading windows SDK from 7.0a to 7.1 which was installed to the C:\Program Files\ directory (may be 64bit version) and VS2012 couldn't find it in that location. Running the repair from the Windows Control Panel fixed the problem. – Michbeckable Jul 28 '14 at 11:47
Link to the Windows SDK for the lazy http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279 – Joe Apr 08 '15 at 18:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 04 '19 at 15:00

You can go to the directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows".

Then, you search for the key "tracker.exe", if you can't find it, it might been deleted somehow.

The best way is:

Copy the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools"

To your PC at the same directory. If it didn't work, you can copy the folder into them[the following picture] every one.

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Visual Studio 2012 - Required file "tracker.exe" is missing

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