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  Visual Studio 2010 Errors after installing Strawberry Perl
  Mockster February 6, 2011, 7:28pm #1
  This post is related to another post involving build erros after installing Strawberry Perl which involved Code Blocks. That post can be viewed here: http://forum.openframeworks.cc/t/error:-cannot-find–lstrmbase/3990/0
  As stated in the post, I resolved the Code Blocks problem but continue to have VS2010 build errors. Since the title of that post is unrelated to the VS2010 build errors I am currently recieving, I started this post.
  Before installing Strawberry Perl, I was able to compile and run the oF example projects. Now, I get 52 errors when I attempt to compile and run any example project (see attached photo). I think it's an important clue that I always get 52 errors no matter what project I try to run and it is always the same error (again, please see attached photo). Strawberry Perl installs a C compiler. This messed up my Code Blocks compiler path and I strongly believe it has done the same with my VS 2010, but I have not had any luck figuring out how to check which compiler VS is using. The first error message I recieve states a problem in line 113 of the file Microsoft.CppCommon.targets which is located here: C:\Programfiles(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets
  I don't think the problem is with this file, but it's with another file this file is trying to work with. I have another windows machine with VS 2010 which run the oF projects just fine (I did not install Strawberry Perl on that machine). I compared the aforementioned files line for line (very tedious…my eyes hurt) and they are identical, especially at and around line 113.
  Here is line 113 and related lines:
  <Message Text="Description: %(PostBuildEvent.Message)" Condition="'%(PostBuildEvent.Message)' != '' and '%(PostBuildEvent.Command)' != ''"/>
  <Exec Command="%(PostBuildEvent.Command)$(BuildSuffix)" Condition="'%(PostBuildEvent.Command)' != ''"/>
  Line 113 starts with the Exec tag. In the Microsoft.CppCommon.targets file, it states that
  This file defines the steps/targets common to build Visual C++ projects.
  I'm considering doing an uninstall of VS 2010 and reinstalling it , but there is no gaurantee that will fix anything. Plus, there is probably an easy fix if I could just decifer the error message correctly.