# Error MSB3721

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/error-msb3721/112392>\
**Category:** CUDA Setup and Installation\
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/error-msb3721/112392 "2020-02-21T02:19:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/error-msb3721/112392/1 "2020-02-21T02:19:16Z")

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1\>Build started 2/20/2020 9:20:53 PM.  
1\>Building with tools version “15.0”.  
1\>Target “EnableIntermediateOutputPathMismatchWarning” skipped, due to false condition; (‘$(RestoreProjectStyle)’ == ‘PackageReference’) was evaluated as (‘’ == ‘PackageReference’).  
1\>Target \_CheckForInvalidConfigurationAndPlatform:  
1\> Task “Error” skipped, due to false condition; ( ‘$(\_InvalidConfigurationError)’ == ‘true’ ) was evaluated as ( ‘’ == ‘true’ ).  
1\> Task “Warning” skipped, due to false condition; ( ‘$(\_InvalidConfigurationWarning)’ == ‘true’ ) was evaluated as ( ‘’ == ‘true’ ).  
1\> Using “Message” task from assembly “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”.  
1\> Task “Message”  
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1\> Platform=x64  
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1\> Task “Error” skipped, due to false condition; (‘$(OutDir)’ != ‘’ and !HasTrailingSlash(‘$(OutDir)’)) was evaluated as (‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\x64\Debug' != ‘’ and !HasTrailingSlash(‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\x64\Debug')).  
1\> Task “Error” skipped, due to false condition; (’$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)’ != ‘’ and !HasTrailingSlash(‘$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)’)) was evaluated as (‘obj' != ‘’ and !HasTrailingSlash(‘obj')).  
1\> Task “Error” skipped, due to false condition; (’$(IntermediateOutputPath)’ != ‘’ and !HasTrailingSlash(‘$(IntermediateOutputPath)’)) was evaluated as (‘x64\Debug' != ‘’ and !HasTrailingSlash(‘x64\Debug')).  
1\> Task “Error” skipped, due to false condition; ( ‘$(\_InitialMSBuildProjectExtensionsPath)’ != ‘’ And ‘$(MSBuildProjectExtensionsPath)’ != ‘$(\_InitialMSBuildProjectExtensionsPath)’ ) was evaluated as ( ‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\obj' != ‘’ And ‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\obj' != ‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\obj' ).  
1\> Task “Warning” skipped, due to false condition; ( ‘$(EnableBaseIntermediateOutputPathMismatchWarning)’ == ‘true’ And ‘$(\_InitialBaseIntermediateOutputPath)’ != ‘$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)’ And ‘$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)’ != ‘$(MSBuildProjectExtensionsPath)’ ) was evaluated as ( ‘’ == ‘true’ And ‘obj' != ‘obj' And ‘obj' != ‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\obj' ).  
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1\>Target SetTelemetryEnvironmentVariables:  
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1\> VSTEL\_CurrentSolutionBuildID=699909406  
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1\> Task “SetEnv”  
1\> VSTEL\_ProjectID={1ABE8F3D-0B6B-4EB9-A1A0-81C2FB6884EB}  
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1\>Target \_PrepareForRebuild:  
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1\>Target \_PrepareForClean:  
1\> Using “Delete” task from assembly “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”.  
1\> Task “Delete”  
1\> Deleting file “x64\Debug\cuda\_sch.1ABE8F3D.tlog\cuda\_scheduling\_new.lastbuildstate”.  
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1\>Target BeforeClean:  
1\>Target “UnmanagedUnregistration” skipped, due to false condition; (((’$(\_AssemblyTimestampBeforeCompile)’ != ‘$(\_AssemblyTimestampAfterCompile)’ or ‘$(RegisterForComInterop)’ != ‘true’ or ‘$(OutputType)’ != ‘library’) or  
1\> (’$(\_AssemblyTimestampBeforeCompile)’ == ‘’)) and  
1\> Exists(’@(\_UnmanagedRegistrationCache)’)) was evaluated as (((’’ != ‘’ or ‘’ != ‘true’ or ‘exe’ != ‘library’) or  
1\> (’’ == ‘’)) and  
1\> Exists(‘obj\cuda\_scheduling\_new.vcxproj.UnmanagedRegistration.cache’)).  
1\>Target CoreClean:  
1\> Task “Delete”  
1\> File “x64\Debug\TempCA\cuda\_scheduling\_new.pdb” doesn’t exist. Skipping.  
1\> File “x64\Debug\TempCA\cuda\_scheduling\_new.exe” doesn’t exist. Skipping.  
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1\> Using “ReadLinesFromFile” task from assembly “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”.  
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1\> Using “FindUnderPath” task from assembly “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”.  
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1\> Comparison path is “C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\x64\Debug".  
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1\> Comparison path is “x64\Debug".  
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1\>Target \_SplitProjectReferencesByFileExistence:  
1\> Task “ResolveNonMSBuildProjectOutput” skipped, due to false condition; (‘$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)’==‘true’ and ‘@(ProjectReferenceWithConfiguration)’!=‘’) was evaluated as (‘true’==‘true’ and ‘’!=‘’).  
1\>Target \_GetProjectReferenceTargetFrameworkProperties:  
1\> Using “MSBuild” task from assembly “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”.  
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1\> Task “GetReferenceNearestTargetFrameworkTask” skipped, due to false condition; (‘@(\_ProjectReferenceTargetFrameworkPossibilities-\>Count())’ != ‘0’ and ‘$(ReferringTargetFrameworkForProjectReferences)’ != ‘’) was evaluated as (‘0’ != ‘0’ and ‘.NETFramework,Version=v4.0’ != ‘’).  
1\>Target PrepareProjectReferences:  
1\>Target CleanReferencedProjects:  
1\> Task “MSBuild” skipped, due to false condition; (‘$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)’ != ‘true’ and ‘$(BuildProjectReferences)’ == ‘true’ and ‘@(\_MSBuildProjectReferenceExistent)’ != ‘’) was evaluated as (‘true’ != ‘true’ and ‘true’ == ‘true’ and ‘’ != ‘’).  
1\>Target CleanPublishFolder:  
1\> Task “RemoveDir” skipped, due to false condition; (‘$(PublishDir)’==‘$(OutputPath)app.publish' and Exists(’$(PublishDir)‘)) was evaluated as (‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\x64\Debug\app.publish'==‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\x64\Debug\app.publish' and Exists(‘C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\x64\Debug\app.publish')).  
1\>Target AfterClean:  
1\>Target “EntityClean” skipped, due to false condition; (’@(EntityDeploy)’ != ‘’) was evaluated as (’’ != ‘’).  
1\>Target BeforeCppClean:  
1\>Target CoreCppClean:  
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1\> Using “CppClean” task from assembly “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.Build.CppTasks.Common.dll”.  
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1\>Target PGInstrumentedClean:  
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1\>Target InitializeCudaHostProperties:  
1\>Target AddCudaCompileMetadata:  
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1\> Using “SanitizePaths” task from assembly “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\BuildCustomizations\Nvda.Build.CudaTasks.v10.0.dll”.  
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1\>Target ValidateCudaBuild:  
1\> Task “Error” skipped, due to false condition; (!Exists($(CudaToolkitDir))) was evaluated as (!Exists(C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0)).  
1\>Target CudaClean:  
1\> Building target “CudaClean” completely.  
1\> No input files were specified.  
1\> Initializing task factory “XamlTaskFactory” from assembly “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”.  
1\> Using “CudaCompile” task from the task factory “XamlTaskFactory”.  
1\> Task “CudaCompile”  
1\> cmd.exe /C “C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpf201da61496e46a6bf12958d94a14895.cmd”  
1\> “C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\bin\nvcc.exe” -ccbin “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\bin\HostX86\x64” -x cu -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include” -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include” -G --keep-dir x64\Debug -maxrregcount=0 --machine 64 --compile -g -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -D\_DEBUG -D\_CONSOLE -D\_MBCS -Xcompiler “/EHsc /W3 /nologo /Od /FS /Zi /RTC1 /MDd " -o x64\Debug\simulation.cu.cu.obj “C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\x64\Release\simulation.cu.cu” -clean  
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1\> C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\>“C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\bin\nvcc.exe” -ccbin “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\bin\HostX86\x64” -x cu -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include” -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include" -G --keep-dir x64\Debug -maxrregcount=0 --machine 64 --compile -g -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -D\_DEBUG -D\_CONSOLE -D\_MBCS -Xcompiler “/EHsc /W3 /nologo /Od /FS /Zi /RTC1 /MDd " -o x64\Debug\simulation.cu.cu.obj “C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\x64\Release\simulation.cu.cu” -clean  
1\> nvcc fatal : Could not set up the environment for Microsoft Visual Studio using ‘C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.15.26726/bin/HostX86/x64/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars64.bat’  
1\> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\BuildCustomizations\CUDA 10.0.targets(889,9): error MSB3721: The command ““C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\bin\nvcc.exe” -ccbin “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\bin\HostX86\x64” -x cu -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include” -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include” -G --keep-dir x64\Debug -maxrregcount=0 --machine 64 --compile -g -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -D\_DEBUG -D\_CONSOLE -D\_MBCS -Xcompiler “/EHsc /W3 /nologo /Od /FS /Zi /RTC1 /MDd " -o x64\Debug\simulation.cu.cu.obj “C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\x64\Release\simulation.cu.cu” -clean” exited with code 1.  
1\> Done executing task “CudaCompile” – FAILED.  
1\>Done building target “CudaClean” in project “cuda\_scheduling\_new.vcxproj” – FAILED.  
1\>  
1\>Done building project “cuda\_scheduling\_new.vcxproj” – FAILED.  
1\>  
1\>Build FAILED.  
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1\>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\BuildCustomizations\CUDA 10.0.targets(889,9): error MSB3721: The command ““C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\bin\nvcc.exe” -ccbin “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\bin\HostX86\x64” -x cu -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include” -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0\include" -G --keep-dir x64\Debug -maxrregcount=0 --machine 64 --compile -g -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -D\_DEBUG -D\_CONSOLE -D\_MBCS -Xcompiler “/EHsc /W3 /nologo /Od /FS /Zi /RTC1 /MDd " -o x64\Debug\simulation.cu.cu.obj “C:\Users\Chengzhang Li\Desktop\Yongce\cuda\_HB\_V2\cuda\_scheduling\_new\x64\Release\simulation.cu.cu” -clean” exited with code 1.  
1\> 0 Warning(s)  
1\> 1 Error(s)  
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1\>Time Elapsed 00:00:01.61  
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