I have Visual Studio 2008 (9.0.30729.1 SP) installed on my computer and a build machine. On my computer, a project builds fine. On the build machine, I have started getting this error. ALINK operation failed (80070005) : Access is denied
This is incredibly irritating because it doesn't say Access TO WHAT??? is denied.
I've tried rebooting the machine, and changing the output directory of the project. It's a C++/CLI DLL. The project links with a large number of libraries so it's not really practical to extensively check everything it links with, but a quick scan of the project and nothing seems to be missing or locked.
Anyway I can figure out what the heck linker is complaining about? Sounds like a bug in the linker(1), but as I said I have the same Visual Studio installed in my PC and the project builds fine.
(1) You could argue that an error message that unhelpful IS a bug.
It's always good to have FileMon as a tool in your toolkit: it can log every file operation, and will help showing what exactly the linker wants to do with what file.
(Find it at sysinternals.com)