fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt.

This error appear because you have installed higher version of Visual C++ while compiling a lower version (e.g., VC2010).
One easy way to solve this problem (for VC2010) is to rename C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cvtres.exe

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