That was precisely the problem -- I have to build in the VC x64 shell.

THANKS!

On 01/10/2018 01:43 PM, Ray Satiro via curl-library wrote:
> On 1/10/2018 5:51 AM, William Zeitler wrote:
>> I need to build Windows static x64.
>>
>> Using curl-757.0.tar.gz, in ...\winbuild I enter
>>
>>     nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=static MACHINE=x64
>>
>> The build fails with:
>>
>> ..\builds\libcurl-vc-x64-release-static-ipv6-sspi-winssl-obj-lib/file.obj
>> : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'x86' conflicts with target
>> machine type 'x64'
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
>> Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.12.25827\bin\HostX86\x86\link.exe"'
>> : return code '0x458'
>> Stop.
> It looks like you are using the wrong environment. If you want to build
> for x64 you have to use the x64 environment and if you want to build for
> x86 you have to use the x86 environment. The easiest way to do this is
> use the Visual Studio command prompt shortcuts which automatically set
> up the environment.
>
> If your OS is 64-bit then Visual Studio should have installed the 64-bit
> tools. There should be shortcuts in the start menu Visual Studio xxxx >
> Visual Studio Tools > and there will be a Command Prompt named Visual
> Studio x64 Win64 or Visual Studio x64 Native. Those are the 64-bit
> tools. If your OS is 32-bit then it only installed the cross compiler
> tools, so the shortcut is something like Visual Studio x64 cross
> compiler. IIRC it's faster to use the native tools if they're available.
>
>
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