Thanks, Bill and Fish!?
I'll try following your steps in my VM and see if I can get it to work.? Myself I don't like using the MS development tools for several reasons - besides your moving target issue, I feel like they are way more bloated than they need to be, even when installing just the tools one needs to complete a given build.? That, and they are difficult to cleanly remove from a Windows installation - I've resorted on more than one occasion to just resetting my windows environment to effectively uninstall Visual Studio 201?. (I think it was 2013 but don't remember for sure...)
That's also why from here on out I'll only install and use Visual Studio on a VM - it's just too much of a hassle to use on a real computer that cannot be dedicated to just one project...
Fish, I know you had your reasons for moving from Cygwin/GCC to VS.? But myself, I'd prefer to use Cygwin/mingw to build on windows because it's so much leaner and easier to clean off/reconfigure when needed...? I've used both Cygwin and MinGW to build GnuCOBOL, for example, and they worked great.? One can quite easily setup and isolate multiple Cygwin/MinGW environments on the same machine too - I wouldn't even want to try doing that with VS.
