Help! Can't get through Lesson 1

[Thestonedprogrammer]

I got to the part where Chili told me to enter the code, and I copied it exactly, but I got this message when I tried to build:

1>------ Build started: Project: Chili DirectX Framework, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
1> Generating code
1> Finished generating code
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I have no idea what is going on.

[DreamBliss]

If you are still having problems can you post the code here that you have entered in code tags? Need to see what you typed in order to see if there are any errors in it.

Until then entering this:
LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF

Into Google brings up these:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088 ... valid-or-c
http://cloverink.net/link-fatal-error-l ... e-preview/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums ... 9787f1b359

Right off hand it looks as this is a Visual Studio 2012 issue. Chili is using Visual Studio 2010 Express and I would recommend using that instead if you are using Visual Studio 2010. If you are using Visual Studio 2010 Express be sure to install the service pack:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=210710

I can't verify if this is a valid download link or not, and my blog is down (again) so I can't get the link from there where I have it stashed. So download at your own risk, and be sure to virus scan it before opening or install. I will post the link to the Microsoft page as soon as I can get my hands on it.