MS VS 2008 post install step; Oracle patch 9491976 failed while relinking

Question

Hi,
I am installaing R12.1 on Windows 2008 Enterprise (SP1) server with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and cygwin as pre requisite softwares. The installation has got completed and I was even able to run a test concurrent program successfully.
Now, as part of post installation step (MS Visual Studio 2008 and Visual C++ 2008 Express for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on Windows [ID 1070674.1]) applied the patch 9491976 and it error's out with relinking error.
All the relinking of the executables has failed in that patch and below is the gist of one such error message,
The error in the adrelink.log is as follows,
D:/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.2/lib/oracore10.lib C:/VS2008/VC
/LIB/MSVCRT.LIB C:/VS2008/VC /LIB/OLDNAMES.LIB "LIB"/KERNEL32.LIB
"LIB"/USER32.LIB "LIB"/ADVAPI32.LIB "LIB"/WINSPOOL.LIB "LIB"/COMDLG32.LIB
"LIB"/GDI32.LIB "LIB"/VERSION.LIB
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/LIB/MSVCRT.LIB'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/LIB/OLDNAMES.LIB'; ignored
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/VS2008/VC.obj'
gnumake: *** [D:/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin/FNDCORE.dll]
Error 157
Done with link of fnd executable 'FNDCORE.dll' on Mon Nov 22 14:58:53 PST 2010
Relink of module "FNDCORE.dll" failed.
See error messages above (also recorded in log file) for possible
reasons for the failure. Also, please check that the Unix userid
running adrelink has read, write, and execute permissions
on the directory D:/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin,
and that there is sufficient space remaining on the disk partition
containing your Oracle Applications installation.
Done with link of product 'fnd' on Mon Nov 22 14:58:54 PST 2010
adrelink is exiting with status 1
There are not spaces in the directory were MS VS 2008 is installed and the variable is set to "Set MSVCPP=C:/VS2008/VC"
Please review and advice if anyone had faced this issue.
Thanks,
Rajesh

Answer 1

Hussein,
Please find below the requested information,
1. Path variable value after sourcing the apps env file,
D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl>APPSVIS_oracletemp.cmd
ECHO is off.
ECHO is off.
Tue 11/23/2010 02:36 PM
ECHO is off.
ECHO is off.
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.
APPSORA.cmd exiting with status 0
D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl>
D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl>echo %path%
C:\VS2008\Common7\IDE;C:\VS2008\VC\BIN;C:\VS2008\Common7\Tools;C:\Windows\Micros
oft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\VS2008\V
C\VCPackages;C:\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin;D:\oracle\VIS\ap
ps\apps_st\appl\au\12.0.0\bin;D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl\fnd\12.0.0\bin;D:\
oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl\ad\12.0.0\bin;D:\oracle\VIS\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\app
sutil\jdk\jre\bin;D:\oracle\VIS\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\perl\5.8.3\bin\MSWin32-x86-m
ulti-thread\;D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\comn\util\unzip\unzip;D:\oracle\VIS\apps
\tech_st\10.1.3\appsutil\jdk\bin;D:\oracle\VIS\apps\tech_st\10.1.2\bin;D:\oracle
\VIS\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\appsutil\jdk\bin;D:\oracle\VIS\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\apps
util\jdk\jre\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;D:\oracle\VIS\apps
\tech_st\10.1.3\ant\bin
D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl>
2. gnumake version is as follows,
D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl>gnumake --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This program built for i386-pc-mingw32
D:\oracle\VIS\apps\apps_st\appl>
Thanks,
Rajesh.