When publishing a NativeAOT application on Windows, the build fails with:
Platform linker not found. Ensure you have all the required prerequisites documented at https://aka.ms/nativeaot-prerequisites, in particular the Desktop Development for C++ workload in Visual Studio.
However, the required Visual Studio C++ workloads, Windows SDKs, and MSVC toolchain are all correctly installed.
The actual cause was that another executable named link.exe (from Coreutils) existed earlier on the system PATH.
After removing coreutils, NativeAOT published successfully without any other changes.
When publishing a NativeAOT application on Windows, the build fails with:
Platform linker not found. Ensure you have all the required prerequisites documented at https://aka.ms/nativeaot-prerequisites, in particular the Desktop Development for C++ workload in Visual Studio.However, the required Visual Studio C++ workloads, Windows SDKs, and MSVC toolchain are all correctly installed.
The actual cause was that another executable named link.exe (from Coreutils) existed earlier on the system PATH.
After removing coreutils, NativeAOT published successfully without any other changes.