TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "xsd.exe". The system cannot find the file specified

Question

In the intent of converting a Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (VS2015) project with VisualGDB to VS2017 without VisualGDB, I get the following error:

Notes: VS2017 includes a native feature for remote build/debugging.

TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "xsd.exe". The system cannot find the file specified.

Why is that happening and how to solve it?

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More details

Opening the project with VS2017 and going to the properties, most of the required settings for remote build are missing. I tried to add/modify the ``.vcxproj` xml to match an new empty project which seem to build correctly remotely.

After this step, the property window of the project seem pretty similar, except an additional XML Data generator Tool section in the not-working project.

When building the project, it shows the following:

1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: project, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
1>Cleaning remote project directory
1>TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "xsd.exe". The system cannot find the file specified.
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1>Done building project "project.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

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EDITED: it seem related with the inclusion of some sources like:

<Xsd Include="C:\Users\...\xml_file.xsd" />

Answer 1

I just faced the same issue and resolved it through a combination of the following two steps:

• Locating xsd.exe on my file system. If it doesn't exist (although it should when Visual Studio is installed), this answer might help.

• Adding the path it is in to the "Executable Directories" variable in the properties of the Visual Studio project. (Personally, I don't have Visual Studio installed, so I added <ExecutablePath> properties next to the <IncludePath> ones in the .vcxproj file via text editor)