LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'triplex.exe'

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I have been in my triplex.cpp file for about 20 minutes in VS Code, making updates, saving and compiling successfully. I started the next lesson and migrated my code to a new PlayGame function and started receiving this compile error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ‘triplex.exe’

To resolve, I closed VS Code, opened the exe file and closed it. This worked but I have no idea why. Starting this chain to help anyone having issues with this error as I could not find a consistent answer.

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The antivirus may be deleting the .exe file. Add it to the exclusion list.

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Because compiling would involve overwriting the existing executable. It can’t do that if you have the program running.

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This may have been because my program was running! After I shut everything down/killing everything in task manager and restarting Visual Code I was fine again.

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Could be. I did have an antivirus running during this. Good look!

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This helped me. Thank you for posting this. I restarted my VS Code and everything went back to normal. I don’t know why it worked, but it did.

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You’re welcome! I will continue to track everything I find or run into to help others… I took a little break for some personal reasons but picking up where we left off now. How are you making out?

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